Tanvi Kaushal, Ansh Asawa & Lipika Singla, National Law University, Jodhpur
ABSTRACT
Extra judicial killings are a major bane for the justice system as a whole, they are those loopholes that have been dug to prevent people from accessing their natural right to justice. Police officers have been delegated with a very serious responsibility i.e. protecting the interest of the citizens and ensuring that their voices are heard and they be given true access to justice but the trend seems to say something else. Extra judicial killings or encounters seems to have seen the light of day, our very own protectors are using this mechanism to fulfil their vested interests with the sad part being, the judiciary doesn’t seem to cooperate as well because of its half-hearted and tedious justice delivery system. This has made people believe that the most appropriate and speedy way of ensuring that a person pays for his crimes is death.
Therefore, through this article the authors aim to analyze the concept of extra judicial killings in India along with the relevant legal provisions and various issues involved in this practice. They also aim to understand the relevance of extra judicial killings in the contemporary times along with the reason behind it and also puts light on the legality of encounter killings along with the current laws in India that keep a check on Extra Judicial Killings. In the end, the authors summarize the whole issue and provides their findings and suggestions for the same.
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