Akhilesh terms UP Police encounters as murders

Lucknow: Coming down heavily on police encounters in Uttar Pradesh, Samajwadi Party national president Akhilesh Yadav described them as "murders" and said people can see through these "police ambushes".
"Ye encounter nahi ho raha hai, ye hatya ho rahi hai, aur ye poori janya dekh rahi hai (This is not encounter, this is murder and people can see through it)," Akhilesh said responding to a media query in Nasik.Akhilesh had reached Maharashtra on Friday where he addressed a rally. "Many senior police officers in discussions with us and with the other people are saying that many police will go to jail for fake encounters. Recently, the first DGP of (this) BJP government had said when a probe is ordered then those policemen who are executing these encounters are left all to themselves and no one bothers to stand with them. The action is initiated against many of these policemen who land in jail," Akhilesh said, adding that the former state police chief even cited a figure of cops sent to jail for fake encounters. It was here that the former UP CM called the encounter as murder.
The SP chief's reference to a former DGP was related to a recent interview of retired IPS officer Sulkhan Singh where he said police in Uttar Pradesh were performing "under extreme pressure" and that allegations of fake encounters are very serious in nature and must be probed by the Criminal Investigation Department (CID). Sulkhan Singh said if questions were being raised on the arrest, encounter and police role in Bahraich violence then it should be probed not by Bahraich police as they are themselves a party in the complaint.