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426 cases of fake encounters: NHRC

Issue No. 9 | May 01-15, 2012

A total 426 cases of alleged fake encounters by police, defence and central armed police forces were registered by the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) during the period 2009-10 to 2011-12. For the current year 2012-13, as on April 17, 2012, no such case has been registered. During the above period, in none of the cases, any recommendation for disciplinary action/prosecution of the public servants was made by NHRC.

Against 426 cases of alleged fake encounters, 84 cases have been solved and the remaining 342 are unsolved. For expediting the unsolved cases, concerted efforts are made by NHRC for obtaining the inquest reports, post-mortem report, magisterial inquiry report etc. from the concerned State Governments, according to Jitendra Singh, Minister of State for Home Affairs.