PFI bats for CBI probe on fake encounters

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    IMPHAL, July 31: The Popular Front of India (PFI) has expressed shock over the recent disclosure by the Home Ministry statistics that a total of 555 cases of alleged fake encounters by police, defense and paramilitary forces were registered by the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) since April 1, 2009 to February 15, 2013.

    According to a statement of the front, over the last few years there were concerns raised by various human rights activists and groups regarding the increase in fake encounter killings in India adding that the issue was never dealt with seriousness by the successive governments and that the incapability of the government to timely intervene into this grave issue has resulted in the increase in such crimes.

    While noting that the encounter killing case of Ishrat Jahan was proved to be a fake only after the CBI took the charge of the investigation, the front demanded the government to initiate CBI probe on all the encounter cases.

    The government should also immediately repeal the draconian laws which are used by the armed forces to carry out such illegal killings and provide compensation to the families of the victims, it added.

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