The highest levels of government keep encouraging police, paramilitary and army units to eliminate "undesirables" even as the public cheers the rogue elements from the sidelines
15 Aug 2022
Max Weber believed the State having a monopoly on violence was good, as it derived its legitimacy from the society it governed. But what happens when it uses illegitimate and disproportionate violence against its own? In this issue, we uncover the sordid saga of fake encounters.
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Since there is a thin line between exercising the right to self-defence, retaliation and using excessive force, police encounters must always be...
In Uttar Pradesh, especially, encounter killings have become the new normal and have gained wider acceptability among civilians as well as law...
The culture of rifles among Adivasis, aided by the ever-increasing deployment of paramilitary forces, has permanently mutated the central Indian...
The pro-Indian government militia, Ikhwan-ul-Muslimeen—that targeted Pakistan-backed militants in Kashmir—was launched in 1993 by popular...
