On April 14, a news report on ‘encounters’, quoting the UP Police, stated that since March 2017, more than 10,900 police encounters had taken place in Uttar Pradesh. The power of punishment is only vested in the judiciary”. The PIL also appealed to the Supreme Court to take steps to prevent the police from becoming “a mode of delivering final justice or a punishing authority. Tiwari also said in the absence of any reaction or counterfire by the police escort on April 15, the incident had raised “doubts on the functioning of the police” and “that the Saturday killings were a pre-planned attack”. The Chief Minister’s office reportedly said that the CM “praised the UP Police’s Special Task Force for the encounter killing of Asad Ahmad”.įollowing this, the Supreme Court was moved by advocate Vishal Tiwari through a PIL seeking an independent inquiry into all encounter killings in Uttar Pradesh since 2017, the year the Yogi Adityanath-led BJP government assumed power. This was about the ‘encounter’ killing of Asad, Atiq’s son, and his accomplice on April 13 in Jhansi they were wanted in a murder case. It also said the Chief Minister had praised the “earlier killings of Ahmad’s son and his associate”. On April 17, The New York Times said the killings “raised concerns about how deeply extrajudicial violence - which often carries religious undertones - has seeped into the governance of the state”. This, with the alleged ‘Jai Shri Ram’ sloganeering by the accused after they were arrested, made the international press lay the blame on the political leadership. Since they were under police custody, their security was the responsibility of the police, who were inattentive, inept and irresponsible.
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The killings took place in public view under the glare of TV cameras. That was when three armed assailants shot Atiq Ahmad and Ashraf, two criminal-politician brothers who were being escorted by the police duly handcuffed. Judged by the RAND definition, Prayagraj district in Uttar Pradesh, the largest province in the world, became an ‘ungoverned territory’ on the night of April 15. It said, on an average, major violent incidents are followed by aġ percentage point reduction in GDP, six quarters after the event.
In August 2021, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) published a study, ‘The Economics of Social Unrest’, that probed the relationship between social unrest and economic growth. This definition is universally accepted by international institutions and global risk analysis agencies that are hired to do due diligence before foreign direct investment. IN 2007, premier US think tank RAND defined ‘ungoverned territories’ with any of these four indicators - lack of state penetration or ineffective governance, lack of state monopoly of using force with illegal armed groups operating beyond state control, lack of border control or unchecked foreign interference. Ex-Special Secretary, Cabinet Secretariat
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