Allahabad advocate Nabi Ahmad was allegedly shot dead by police sub-inspector Shailendra Singh on Wednesday, 11 March, resulting in local riots by enraged lawyers and a call by the Bar Council of India (BCI) for a national strike by lawyers, demanding the police officer’s arrest and Rs 50 lakh compensation by the state government to Ahmad’s family.
Singh has since been arrested and Uttar Pradesh state has initiated a Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) inquiry.
The video appears to have been recorded by a bystander on a cameraphone and has been doing the rounds between lawyers on social media. The authenticity of the recording could not be verified.
The video, in which shakiness has been auto-corrected by software, appears to show a group of lawyers attacking Singh (in khaki) before Singh firing his weapon.
The footage seems to corroborate media reports that the officer was allegedly in a “heated argument with a group of lawyers”, after which the lawyers “allegedly threatened to thrash him”, followed by Singh allegedly firing his service weapon.
The BCI called it a “ghastly and brutal killing of a lawyer by the police officials in court premises”, calling for a national strike, Singh’s immediate arrest and the state government to pay Rs 50 lakh compensation to the family.
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Can you please help me as to how to fix this?
As such, the cops of this country are rustic, brutal and mentally retarded, and do not understand the difference between right and wrong or where to draw the line. Most of the cops in India are class 8 pass (except for IPS) and failure as human beings (including IPS).
I believe unless the entire police system is scrapped and a new trained police battalion is formed, incidents of this nature will be repeated time and again. It is no point just wasting time, money and efforts in training the existing ones. Old habits die hard.