Gujarat HC issues notice to govt on police encounter killing

The petition is filed by advocate Vicky Mehta and is being argued by senior advocate Yatin Oza.”On seeing his son being shot in cold blood, the father also got angry and as he came to see his child, he was also shot dead,” says the petitioner in her PIL.”No doubt, there are many offences registered against the father of the petitioner herein i.e Hanifkhan. However, this will not give an automatic licence to the respondent number 5 to 11 to carry out a fake encounter,” the PIL further reads.The police, however, has claimed that both the father and son, Hanifkhan, 44, and Madeen, 18, were shot while they were trying to escape from the police team. Police claimed in their FIR that they had to resort to firing after Hanif shot at the police team to resist his arrest and was being assisted by his son and others.



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