Following Section 30 of the Protection of Human Rights Act of 1993, the PIL also called for the establishment of Human Rights Courts in the state.
Digital Desk: The state government informed the Assam Assembly that no incidents of police encounters had taken place in the state since 2019, which led to a chaotic situation in the House on Saturday. Encounters in the state appeared to be a "vague" issue of debate.
The Assam Assembly was then suspended for an hour. On behalf of the chief minister, Himanta Biswa Sarma, who is in charge of the home ministry, Pijush Hazarika, minister of parliamentary affairs, responded that there hasn't been any "encounter" in the state.
He did, however, acknowledge that there had been cases of police confrontation in which fleeing suspects have been shot by police and died.
The minister was quickly criticized by opposition parties, and independent legislator Akhil Gogoi accused him of making a "wrong" statement in the House. In addition, Congress and the All India United Democratic Front (AIUDF) condemned Hazarika's remarks for stirring up a commotion.
The Assam administration had earlier been asked for information by the Gauhati High Court regarding the status of the probe into the "police encounters" that had occurred in the state since May of last year.
After receiving a public interest litigation (PIL) request for an impartial investigation into the Assam encounter killings under the high court's supervision from Assamese resident Arif Md. Yeasin Jwadder, a lawyer in Delhi, the high court issued its order.
Following Section 30 of the Protection of Human Rights Act of 1993, the PIL also called for the establishment of Human Rights Courts in the state.
Over 80 similar encounters have occurred since the new government took office in May, according to Jwadder, who provided the court with information based on media accounts. He stated that during that time, there were 48 injuries and 28 deaths as a result of "fake encounters."
The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) had already requested a report on the state police's course of action in September.
Here, the Supreme Court's instructions for an investigation of encounter cases were released, and the high court asked the state to submit whether they had been followed.
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