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Monday, 5 May, 2014
Uttar Pradesh tops fake encounters list
New Delhi: Uttar Pradesh has earned the dubious distinction of witnessing the highest number of fake
encounters with nearly 743 people being allegedly killed by police in such incidents in past few years.
Statistics released by the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) and the governments replies to
MPs queries in the Lok Sabha revealed that of 1,788 such deaths across India between 2002 and November
2013, Uttar Pradesh has the dubious distinction of being the state with the maximum number of fake
encounter deaths (743).
Uttar Pradesh is followed by Assam (273), Andhra Pradesh (101) and Maharashtra (88), according to the
NHRC statistics.
Contrary to popular perception, the Narendra Modi-led Gujarat is somewhere at the bottom of the list with
just 12 fake encounter deaths since 2002.
It features below Jharkhand (55), Uttarakhand (53), Delhi (52), Chhattisgarh (46), Karnataka (39), Odisha
(39), Manipur (38), Meghalaya (33) and even Tamil Nadu (31).
With the election fever on, the figures provide more fodder for the BJP to target the Congress.
After Mulayam and Mayawati, four Congress CMs Assams Tarun Gogoi, former Andhra CM YS
Rajasekhara Reddy and former Maharashtra CMs Vilasrao Deshmukh and Ashok Chavan have the worst
track record.
BJPs Arjun Munda, who was Jharkhand CM from 2005-2006 and then from 2010-2013, is seventh on the
list with 27 fake encounter deaths recorded in his second term.
In Andhra Pradesh, the YSR-led Congress government from 2004 to 2009 witnessed 58 encounter deaths.
According to Lok Sabha figures, last year, there were 25 fake encounter deaths in the state which is now
ruled by his colleague N Kiran Kumar Reddy.
In Assam, under Gogoi, 273 encounters took place since 2002, with 62 in 2011.
Similarly, in Maharashtra, Vilasraos tenure from 2004 to 2008 was the worst with 38 such cases recorded.
From 2010 to 2014, the state saw 14 staged shootouts.
As you can see that as per order shown above, the first seven states
are of Congress and its ally (SP) ruled party.
Gujarat being at the bottom of the list, it is still portrayed as a state
which has highest fake encounter cases, through Congress and its
paid media. But this time they will not succeed.