Justice delayed, if not entirely denied, to families of fake ‘encounter’ victims, @rads_j writes. In Pilibhit fake ‘encounter’ where #UP police shot 10 Sikh pilgrims in 1991, accused police personnel convicted 25 years after murders.
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A 2018 survey of 15,563 people conducted across 22 states and UTs by Common Cause and Centre for Study of Developing Societies (CSDS), The Status of Policing in India Report (SPIR) 2018 revealed that one out of two Indians condoned the use of violence by the police.
The survey asked the question: “There is nothing wrong in the police being violent towards criminals. Do you agree or disagree?” There were only four states where the majority seemed to reject police violence—Himachal Pradesh, Odisha, West Bengal and Nagaland.
A subsequent 2019 survey of police personnel revealed more troubling attitudes. One in five police personnel felt that killing criminals is better than a legal trial, and three in four believed that it was justified for the police to be violent towards criminals.

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