Encounters are a favourite professional tool for the Indian police. They arrest an alleged criminal, or a terrorist, and fake a shootout between the two sides to carry out a cold-blooded murder. The police has been using this tactic for a number of reasons – to terrorize and warn other criminals, to build the profiles of political leaders by showing that they were being targeted by terrorists, and occasionally to cook up stories behind bomb blasts and avoid painstaking investigations. Encounters are the easiest way to solve a case and create a sensation. Occasionally, to overcome the complex
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