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The Assam government has said in an affidavit that 54 people have been killed in clashes since May 2021.
The Assam government has said in an affidavit that 54 people have been killed in clashes since May 2021.
: The Assam government on Thursday failed to submit to the Gauhati High Court a detailed update of every case it has met since May 2021.
Hearing a public interest litigation (PIL) filed by Delhi-based lawyer Arif Jwadder, the court observed that the State government was given six weeks on July 29 to submit an update report on all police encounters that took place in Assam in the said month.
Assam recorded 161 incidents of police action in the 13 months after Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma took over in May 2021. These incidents resulted in the death of 51 accused and 139 injuries.
In an affidavit dated June 20, the Assam government told the Supreme Court that the death toll has increased to 54 after May 21, 2022.
Mr Jwadder sought an inquiry into the Assam police encounter by an independent agency like the Central Bureau of Investigation or any police force from any State under the supervision of the Supreme Court.
Apart from the State government, the Director General of Assam Police, the Department of Law and Justice, the National Human Rights Commission and the Assam Human Rights Commission have been named as respondents in the PIL.
According to the petitioner, the dead or injured were not extremists “it cannot be the case that all the accused can take a handshake from a trained police officer”.
In most cases, police have claimed that the accused shooter tried to flee after firing a weapon at on-duty police.
The Gauhati High Court has fixed November 14 as the next day for hearing the case.
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