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| Family anger over police killers |
| Family members of two businessmen murdered by a group of policemen over 10 years ago in India have called for them to be sentenced to death.
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| INDIA
, 18-October-2007
2:57:14 AM |
| A court on Monday found 10 police officers guilty of murdering the pair, Pradeep Goyal and Jagjit Singh, in broad daylight in the heart of Delhi.
The police officers will be sentenced next week.
Mr Goyal and Mr Singh were shot dead in their car. The police involved argued that they mistook them for gangsters.
To cover up their error, the police planted a pistol in the car - located in Connaught Place in the heart of the city - and claimed the occupants had opened fire first. The court rejected their defence out of hand.
Coruscating criticism
Over the years there have been constant legal delays, but eventually the system has prevailed.
"Yes it took ten years," Jagjit Singh's father, Niranjan Singh, told the BBC. "Yes, we were pushed around, but we never stopped believing that we would get justice."
This though is a rather rare example.
The police are not often brought to book - and even in this case, the man in charge, Delhi's then police chief, has escaped any punishment.
In fact, he is now a member of parliament for the governing Congress Party.
The campaigning lawyer Colin Gonsalves, who runs the Delhi-based Human Rights Law Network, is coruscating in his criticism.
"The police are trigger happy," he told the BBC.
"They have a licence to kill, and the judiciary over the last 10 years has turned a blind eye to killings by the police mainly because it's poor people who are executed."
Mr Gonsalves says the Connaught Place verdict is a welcome development, but that "for this one instance I would say there have been 200 cases in courts where the police have got away scot-free."
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