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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’. CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 Shrivastav, Saksham funded by the government Extrajudicial killings Human Rights Police Violence 342 https://staging.verfassungsblog.de/the-celebration-of-extra-judicial-murders-whos-watching-india/ 2366-7044 Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH 10.17176/20200715-235227-0 200715 10.17176/20200715-235227-0 Converted from MARCXML to MODS version 3.7 using MARC21slim2MODS3-7.xsl (Revision 1.140 20200717)