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| Encounter killings return to Mumbai |
| It seems like a feeble justification for what many call cold-blooded murder, for crime has nothing to do with it.
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| INDIA
, 14-November-2007
0:31:40 AM |
| Bloodsport returned to the mean streets of Mumbai as three high-profile police killings echo to a violent past.
Sharpshooter for the notorious Ejaz Lakdawala gang, Imran Radiowala, Vijay Choudhary of the Guru Satam gang and ex-Chhota Rajan gangster Nadeem Haider were recently killed in police encounters.
Justifying the encounters, R R Patil, Home Minister, Maharashtra said, ''the crime rate is high so the police have to take this retaliatory action.''
It seems like a feeble justification for what many call cold-blooded murder, for crime has nothing to do with it.
Encounters are how the police and underworld settle scores. This despite a circular issued by the state home minister asking the men in uniform to rein in the bullets.
''There is no need to glamourize encounters. They are a retaliation,'' said Devin Bharti, DCP Crime, Mumbai.
Such incidents are a reminder of Mumbai's bloody past - a time when encounter killings averaged 30 to 40 a year; a time when the Mumbai police were accused of being a trigger-happy force.
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