World Affairs: The Journal of International Issues
Year : 2014, Volume : 18, Issue : 4
First page : ( 140) Last page : ( 150)
Print ISSN : 0971-8052. Online ISSN : 0974-0937.

Impunity, Fake Encounters and Human Rights in Manipur

Singh Oinam Jitendra

Online published on 2 February, 2015.

Abstract

Extrajudicial killing is the killing of persons by governmental authorities without the sanction of any judicial proceeding or due legal process. Many suspect that a number of officially claimed “encounters” or “retaliatory killings” may be fake. The main reason is that in cases of encounter killings or death in police custody, certain legal obligations have to be complied with and the Supreme Court of India and National Human Rights Commission have laid down directions/guidelines, which are often ignored. Extra judical executions in Manipur, mostly of young men, have resulted in the proliferation of young widows and orphans. They face the burden of being bereft of male family members in the traditional patriarchal society as well as the stigma of being branded as terrorist families.

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