nam 22 uu 4500 10.17176/20200715-235227-0 DE-Verfassungsblog cr||||| 200715s2020||||xx#|||||o|||| ||| 0|eng|| 10.17176/20200715-235227-0 doi eng 342 23 Shrivastav, Saksham Author aut The Celebration of Extra-Judicial Murders: Who’s Watching India? Shrivastav, Saksham Verfassungsblog 2020-07-15 Text txt rdacontent Computermedien c rdamedia Online-Ressource cr rdacarrier Police killing and brutality have become common news in India lately, with various cases where citizens were beaten, and even killed, on account of trivial violations of the nationwide COVID-lockdown. Instead of using its resources and manpower to gather evidence and bring the accused to trial, the police in India seems to prefer the easy way of extra-judicial killings. The incidents of these killings on the very face of it seem fabricated, as eerily similar narratives are given. Since the draconian Indian Criminal Procedure Code allows the police to fatally injure a person ‘forcibly’ resisting or evading arrest, if he is accused of an offence punishable with death or life imprisonment, most of these narratives include the accused trying to evade the police or firing at it. Such killings with deliberately concocted circumstances, are in common parlance termed as ‘fake encounter’. funded by the government CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 Extrajudicial killings Human Rights Police Violence Sharma, Adesh Author aut Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH Verfassungsblog 2366-7044 https://staging.verfassungsblog.de/the-celebration-of-extra-judicial-murders-whos-watching-india/ raw object