"The law has done its duty," local police chief VC Sajjanar told reporters.
"Over the decades extrajudicial killings and custodial torture have assumed legal sanctity in India," leading Supreme Court lawyer and founder of the Human Rights Law Network, Colin Gonsalves, told AFP.After the killings, Chief Justice Sharad Arvind Bobde of the Supreme Court said he had concerns about the use of"instant" justice.
Rights activists say"encounters" are carried out as retribution by police, or used to cover up botched investigations, win awards and rewards, or to pacify a furious public. The Supreme Court attempted to clamp down on the killings in 2014, ordering mandatory probes and barring governments from rewarding officers before determining how and why the shootings occurred.
Home Minister Amit Shah has said his government would not tolerate police atrocities. He himself was cleared of charges relating to the 2005 extrajudicial killing of a gangster and his wife when he was Gujarat state's home minister.Police have long been criticised for not preventing violent crimes or for failing to bring cases, particularly sexual assaults, to the courts.
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