Dismissing the police allegation against Mevani as “manufactured”, district and sessions judge Aparesh Chakravarty even linked the case to the ongoing cases of alleged police encounters in Assam and requested the Gauhati High Court to consider whether the issue can be taken up as a PIL “to curb the ongoing police excesses in the state”. In response to an appeal filed by the Assam government against the bail order, the High Court stayed some of the observations made by the lower court, including terming the police FIR as manufactured. But a cut had been made in air thickened by a seeming public consensus around a new, hard-edged conception of justice.
It wasn’t the first time. The Gauhati High Court has already been hearing a petition against alleged fake encounters in the state. Filed in December last year, the petition claimed that since May 2021, when Himanta Biswa Sarma took charge as the chief minister of Assam, 80 incidents of fake encounters had taken place in the state—leaving 28 people killed, 48 injured. (The numbers have gone up since then. By May 1, 2022, government data put the death toll at 39, and there were 123 injured.) In an affidavit filed before the court in February 2022, the state government said all legal and NHRC (National Human Rights Commission) guidelines were being adhered to in all such cases. But even the regime would gladly own up to the perception of a ‘no-nonsense’ approach to law-keeping it exudes.
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