Encounter.

In India , extra judicial killings by the police or the security forces are called encounter killings,meaning that the killing occured during the armed encounter between the police /security forces and the victim.The killing by the state forces is more often declared to be offensive,cases of attempted murder and other related offenses are regestered against the victims and the cases closed without further investigations since criminal cases come to an end after the victims death.Despite being unnatural deaths and the victim having being killed ,no investigation ensues to determine whether the death was in fact in an actual encounter,nor weather the use,and the extent of use,of force was justified.  

Sanjay Patil, a consultant with the Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative and author of a report on police reform, says fake encounters are “glorified” in India because of the influence of Bollywood action movies and a slow-moving justice system which means suspects sometimes await trial for years.

When a notorious activity of a criminal exceed and police finds it difficult to handle encounter becomes the best way out  till now , however ,no human rights group lawyer has been successfully able to prove that the encounters were staged. The fact that the dead person had a criminal background was proven beyond doubt, and the court never gave a verdict that the dead person was in illegal custody.   Though highly controversial from an official point of view, there hasn't been much action taken against such activities by the police. This is attributed to the common understanding that "staged encounters" are primarily carried out by police to kill high profile and extremely dangerous criminals whom the Indian Police Services have been unable to prosecute legally (due to lack of evidence or powerful political connections) . 

           

 Since October 1993, 2560 cases of police encounters have been brought into the notice of National Human Rights Commission (NHRC). Of them, according to the NHRC, 1224 cases have been found fake encounters. It means that roughly every second police encounter is fake in the country.    data reveals is that of 1224 fake encounters, the NHRC ordered for compensation in only 16 cases.Shri K.P.S. Gill finished militancy in Punjab by adherence to bullet for bullet policy only so has mossad,  when an accused is convicted it is very difficult to convict him as we can see from afzal guru’s case the govt. is loosing a lot of money on a terrorist's security . As the process of law is long and the witness are often bullied to turn hostile .                                                                                                                                              

well the issue is debatable but firmly speeking the loopholes are a lot which give the cops a chance to become Robinhood .In a country like ours where the law takes a lot of time and can be influenced people glorify the encounters which is not a good practice.