Extinguishing Law and Life

09/02/2022

Find mention of our report here. Arshi qureshi writes for Maktoob

According to the data and several studies, Uttar Pradesh leads the country in custodial deaths and extrajudicial killings. Muslims, Dalits and people from Other Backward Communities were on the receiving end of Yogi's state terror.

17/01/2022

Read Dhirendra Jha’s detailed coverage for the The Caravan Magazine that finds mention of our Report on extrajudicial killings in Uttar Pradesh.
https://caravanmagazine.in/politics/adityanath-reign-of-terror?fbclid=IwAR18tqs53plojpRMZDHEQEU95C-f-kl2eaOAMi9I0PeurVtaAV5qmX8OUXA

The concerted effort to whitewash Adityanath's image and to deflect attention from the terror and violence Uttar Pradesh has witnessed during his term.

11/11/2021

"The report attempts to deconstruct the extraordinary normalization of “encounter deaths” in the state and the adoption of extrajudicial executions by the police as a mechanism for crime control."
Read 's coverage of our Report in a 3-part series for The Leaflet

This is the first article in a three-part series by V.VENKATESAN on the nature of extrajudicial killings in Uttar Pradesh. The series is based on the report, “Extinguishing Law and Life: Police Killings and Cover-up in the State of Uttar Pradesh” brought out by three human rights groups on Octob...

11/11/2021

Encounter Killings- National And State Human Right Commissions Are Doing Nothing, What Are The Use Of These Bodies, Abolish Them- Justice Lokur expressed his disappointment at statutory bodies and their omissions to ensure proper investigation.
Read Live Law's coverage here.

"The Judiciary has been a bit of a disappoint

11/11/2021

NHRC fails to adequately investigate extrajudicial killings in Uttar Pradesh: report by
, and Citizens Against Hate.
"What is the use of having bodies like this? Why should the taxpayer pay for them?” Retired Supreme Court judge Justice Madan B Lokur.

A report by civil society organizations, which examines the death of 18 men in 17 instances of alleged extrajudicial killings in Uttar Pradesh between March 2017 and March 2018, describes the state as an active theatre of “encounter” killings since March 2017, with “gross procedural and substa...

11/11/2021

देश में न्यायेतर या स्थापित न्यायिक प्रक्रिया को धता बताते हुए पुलिस द्वारा हत्याएं किए जाने को ही ‘न्याय’ समझा जाने लगा हो, फर्जी मुठभेड़ों की घटनाएँ इतनी सामान्य हो चलीं हों कि जिनके होने का पूर्वानुमान सड़क पर चलते लोग, चाय की दुकान पर चुसकियाँ लेते हुए लोग सहज ही लगा पा रहे हों। फर्जी-मुठभेड़, एनकाउंटर मौजूदा न्याय प्रणाली में धीरे धीरे ‘त्वरित न्याय’ के लिए एक समानान्तर व्यवस्था की तरह स्थापित और मान्य होती जा रही हो।
Read NewsClick.in's analysis of the phenomenon of encounter killings.

29 अक्तूबर को जारी हुई एक रिपोर्ट ‘कानून और ज़िंदगियों की संस्थागत मौत: उत्तर प्रदेश में पुलिस द्वारा हत्याएं और उन्....

11/11/2021

A new report has studied 17 alleged extrajudicial killings in the state between March 2017 and March 2018, and found that no police officers have been held accountable in any of them.
Read TheWire.in covering the report.

A new report has studied 17 alleged extrajudicial killings in the state between March 2017 and March 2018, and found that no police officers have been held accountable in any of them.

11/11/2021

Normalizing 'Encounters': When Police Assume Role of Judge, Jury, and Executioner- Mangla Verma and Mahvish Shahab state that the ease with which ‘encounters’ have happened in UP, points towards a menacing emergence of a police state. This has set forth a dangerous trend of extrajudicial executions.
Read the full piece here.

The ease with which ‘encounters’ have happened in UP, points towards a menacing emergence of a police state.

11/11/2021

The new report examines 17 police killings in , reveals the near-total breakdown of the justice-delivery system for families of those killed. Kins are not even labelled as victims, contrary to existing NHRC, SC guidelines. As the police officer involved is regarded as the "victim", only police version is believed; the officer involved in the “encounter” is given the right of hearing at the end of the investigation closing the case, not the family of suspect who was killed.
Read Abhinav Sekhri's analysis here.

New Delhi: The class, caste, and religious discrimination that lies at the heart of India’s criminal-law enforcement has not been spoken about often, bu[...]

11/11/2021

The Report, 'Extinguishing Law and Life: Police Killings and cover up in the state of Uttar Pradesh is a research outcome of the Youth for Human Rights Documentation in collaboration with People's Watch and Citizens Against Hate. It is an attempt towards documenting cases of encounter killings and to study the phenomenon of extrajudicial killings in India.
Head on to our website https://yhrd.in for a detailed report.