After Chhattisgarh & UP, Assam Records 3rd Highest Encounter Killings In India

Guwahati: A total of 655 police encounter have taken in place in the country of which 50 were reported from Assam in the last five years, Union Minister of State for Home Nityanand Rai informed the Lok Sabha on Wednesday.

''191 police encounter killings in Chhattisgarh followed by Uttar Pradesh (177) Assam (50), Jharkhand (49), Odisha (36), Jammu and Kashmir (35), Maharashtra (26), Bihar (22), Haryana (15) and Tamil Nadu (14) incidents were reported in Uttar Pradesh in the last five years,'' the Minister said in a written reply while responding to Varun Gandhi's question on the number of such killings in the country including Uttar Pradesh from January 1, 2017.

Apart from these, 13 cases were reported from Telagana, Madhya Pradesh, and Arunachal Pradesh, while nine such incidents were reported from Andhra Pradesh and Meghalaya and eight each from Rajasthan and Delhi.

Recently, the Assam government had informed the Gauhati High Court that around 28 people got killed while 73 people were injured in police action since May 10, 2021.

The state government in its affidavit informed that police firing took places across 27 districts of the state and the highest number of 10 people killed in Karbi Anglong.

A Public Interest Litigation (PIL) (86/2021) had been filed by Arif Md Yeasin Jwadder under Article 226 of the Constitution of India in Gauhati High Court to issue an appropriate writ or order or direction calling for the records on "fake encounter killings" by police personnel.

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