End of Week – Hyderabad Encounter: Goodness out of Evils

This week was spent happily sometimes giving sorrow. The death of Unnao’s victim in Delhi made her miserable again when the death of the accused of adultery with the doctor of Hyderabad’s daughter in an encounter with the police aroused feelings of happiness in the minds of the people. Even after seven years passed, Nirbhaya’s convicts once again got angry for not being hanged. Now the President may soon reject the mercy petition and Nirbhaya’s accused hang on the noose.

There has been debate in favor and opposition of the encounter which the police in Hyderabad. In fact, the encounter is not done, but the circumstances are subdued. It is the desire of the police that the criminals survive in his custody so that maximum information can be collected and secret secrets can be extracted. But when the culprit becomes violent, attacks the police or tries to escape, a forced encounter has to be done. Encounters conducted in self-defense are considered legally valid. But the image of the encounter is negative in public mind. The negative perception has also been confirmed due to many fake encounters in the past. Courts have also punished convicted policemen in many such cases. It has even happened that the exact encounter is also viewed with suspicion. But the public opinion on the Hyderabad encounter was completely opposite. A wave of immense joy raged among the people, the policemen cheered, the flowers rained, the lakhs of rupees were announced.

Why did this happen? Senior litterateur Maitreyi Pushpa gave a proper answer to this. He said, “If law and justice were going well, perhaps women would not welcome the Hyderabad encounter in this way. This reception has been done in compulsion.”

This is the most accurate comment. When we have to find the good out of evil, then we have to accept less evil. Hyderabad encounter is not a milk wash. It is surrounded by many questions. Politicians are always worried about votes, so barring a few exceptions like Maneka Gandhi, everyone welcomed the encounter or reacted cautiously. But most of the jurists gave their free response and called the encounter wrong and such quick justice dangerous for the future of the country. One thing is that the people who were killed were not really rapists or not, it was not proved that the police had done this well planned act to avoid the slander and stop the pressure, The answer will be found in the magistrate’s investigation. The High Court has also started hearing on the encounter. The court has ordered the four bodies to be kept safe and a video of the post-mortem. Right now the encounter has fueled the flame of anger, but as time passes, the layers of truth will start to erupt.

We wish that the encounter turned out to be true in all the investigations, that the events reported by the police should be proved true and this wave of happiness is converted into tide spends.

– Sarwagya Shekhar