New Delhi, April 9 : Congress MP Pradyut Bordoloi has written a letter to National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) chairperson Justice Arun Mishra seeking his intervention over alleged rising incidents of ”fake encounters” in Assam and asserted that it is detrimental to the public interest. Bordoloi urged the rights body’s chairperson to initiate a ”fair and independent probe” into the matter and put an end to it at the earliest besides ensuring compensation to the victims. “Since the BJP-led government came to power in May 2021, police encounters have been on the rise, under the political patronage of the ruling dispensation and publicly endorsed by the Chief Minister on multiple occasions. Subverting the judicial process, and in violation of the Constitution of India, the Assam government has sought to normalise encounters, and state police have become judge, jury and executioner,” said the Congress MP from Assam’s Nagaon in his letter addressed to the NHRC chairperson. Referring to an incident where a former student leader was shot in the leg during an alleged anti-drugs operation by police in Nagaon earlier this year, the MP said, “There has been some limited action taken following this case. It has only been possible as a consequence of wide public outrage and protests by Opposition parties, rather than ‘due process’ that ought to have been followed in all cases.” He also raised apprehension that such tactics may be used by the BJP government to stifle dissent and create an atmosphere of fear and insecurity in the state. “The Assam Government continues to ignore that our judicial system accords the right to fair trial to all, including criminals. This tendency in Assam of delivering justice via the police alone is detrimental to the public interest of the state. These barbaric encounters have no place in a civilised society, and must be put to an end at the earliest,” Bordoloi, who had raised this matter in Lok Sabha, wrote in his letter on Friday. As per data issued by the on Home Ministry, between Jan, 2017 and Jan 2022, Assam recorded 50 cases of deaths in police encounters, the third highest state record in India, he claimed. DS SHK1840
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