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Death of Sohrabuddin Sheikh

Index Death of Sohrabuddin Sheikh

The Sohrabuddin Sheikh encounter case is an ongoing criminal case in the Gujarat state of India, after the death of Sohrabuddin Anwarhussain Sheikh on November 26, 2005, while he was in police custody. [1]

44 relations: AK-47, Amit Shah, Amnesty International, Bharatiya Janata Party, Central Bureau of Investigation, D. G. Vanzara, Daily News and Analysis, Dainik Bhaskar, Dawood Ibrahim, Encounter killings by police, Extortion, Geetha Johri, Gujarat, Gujarati language, Gulab Chand Kataria, Haren Pandya, Hindustan Times, Hyderabad, India, India Today, Indian National Congress, Inter-Services Intelligence, Ishrat Jahan case, K. T. S. Tulsi, Lashkar-e-Taiba, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Narendra Modi, Om Prakash Mathur, Pakistan, Prashant Dayal, Rajasthan, Raksha Shakti University, Rana Ayyub, Sangli, Sanjiv Bhatt, Supreme Court of India, Telangana, The Times of India, Tirath Das Dogra, Tulsiram Prajapati killing, Ujjain district, 1982 Gonda Encounter, 2009 Dehradun Encounter.

AK-47

The AK-47, or AK as it is officially known, also known as the Kalashnikov, is a gas-operated, 7.62×39mm assault rifle, developed in the Soviet Union by Mikhail Kalashnikov.

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Amit Shah

Amit Anilchandra Shah (born 22 October 1964) is an Indian politician who is currently serving as President of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and as a member of the Rajya Sabha.

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Amnesty International

Amnesty International (commonly known as Amnesty or AI) is a London-based non-governmental organization focused on human rights.

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Bharatiya Janata Party

The Bharatiya Janata Party (translation: Indian People's Party; BJP) is one of the two major political parties in India, along with the Indian National Congress.

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Central Bureau of Investigation

The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) is the premier investigating agency of India.

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D. G. Vanzara

Dahyabhai Gobarji Vanzara is the former Deputy Inspector-General for Gujarat, India.

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Daily News and Analysis

Daily News and Analysis (DNA) is an Indian broadsheet newspaper launched in 2005 and published in English from Mumbai, Ahmedabad, Pune, Jaipur, Bengaluru and Indore in India. It is the first English broadsheet daily in India to introduce an all-colour page format. It targets a young readership and is owned and managed by Diligent Media Corporation.

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Dainik Bhaskar

Dainik Bhaskar (दैनिक भास्कर) is an Indian Hindi-language daily newspaper that is the second largest circulated daily newspaper of India.

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Dawood Ibrahim

Dawood Ibrahim (born Dawood Ibrahim Kaskar 27 December 1955) is a criminal and a designated terrorist originally from Dongri in Mumbai, India.

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Encounter killings by police

"Encounter killing" is a term used in India and Pakistan since the late 20th century to describe killings by the police or the armed forces, allegedly in self-defence, when they encounter suspected gangsters or terrorists.

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Extortion

Extortion (also called shakedown, outwrestling and exaction) is a criminal offense of obtaining money, property, or services from an individual or institution, through coercion.

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Geetha Johri

Geetha Johri is a retired officer of the Indian Police Service.

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Gujarat

Gujarat is a state in Western India and Northwest India with an area of, a coastline of – most of which lies on the Kathiawar peninsula – and a population in excess of 60 million.

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Gujarati language

Gujarati (ગુજરાતી) is an Indo-Aryan language native to the Indian state of Gujarat.

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Gulab Chand Kataria

Gulab Chand Kataria is an Indian politician belonging to the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).

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Haren Pandya

Haren Pandya was the Home Minister of Gujarat in India.

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Hindustan Times

Hindustan Times is an Indian English-language daily newspaper founded in 1924 with roots in the Indian independence movement of the period ("Hindustan" being a historical name for India).

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Hyderabad

Hyderabad is the capital of the Indian state of Telangana and de jure capital of Andhra Pradesh.

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India

India (IAST), also called the Republic of India (IAST), is a country in South Asia.

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India Today

India Today is an Indian English-language fortnightly news magazine and news television channel.

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Indian National Congress

The Indian National Congress (INC, often called Congress Party) is a broadly based political party in India.

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Inter-Services Intelligence

The Inter-Services Intelligence (بین الخدماتی مخابرات, abbreviated as ISI) is the premier intelligence agency of Pakistan, operationally responsible for gathering, processing, and analyzing national security information from around the world.

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Ishrat Jahan case

The Ishrat Jahan encounter case is an ongoing criminal case in the Gujarat state of India, in which the Indian Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) initially accused officers of the Ahmedabad Police Crime Branch and members of the Subsidiary Intelligence Bureau (SIB) of Ahmedabad of jointly having carried out a staged "encounter killing" by shooting dead four people on 15 June 2004.

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K. T. S. Tulsi

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Lashkar-e-Taiba

Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT, لشکر طیبہ; literally Army of the Good, translated as Army of the Righteous, or Army of the Pure and alternatively spelled as Lashkar-e-Tayyiba, Lashkar-e-Toiba; Lashkar-e-Taiba; Lashkar-i-Tayyeba) is one of the largest and most active Islamic terrorism militant organizations in South Asia, operating mainly from Pakistan.

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Madhya Pradesh

Madhya Pradesh (MP;; meaning Central Province) is a state in central India.

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Maharashtra

Maharashtra (abbr. MH) is a state in the western region of India and is India's second-most populous state and third-largest state by area.

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Narendra Modi

Narendra Damodardas Modi (born 17 September 1950) is an Indian politician serving as the 14th and current Prime Minister of India since 2014.

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Om Prakash Mathur

Om Prakash Mathur (born 2 January 1952) is a member of Rajya Sabha from Rajasthan state in India and is a senior politician from Bharatiya Janata Party.

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Pakistan

Pakistan (پاکِستان), officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan (اِسلامی جمہوریہ پاکِستان), is a country in South Asia.

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Prashant Dayal

Prashant Dayal is an Indian journalist, who broke the story of Sohrabuddin encounter case in November 2006.

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Rajasthan

Rajasthan (literally, "Land of Kings") is India's largest state by area (or 10.4% of India's total area).

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Raksha Shakti University

Raksha Shakti University (RSU) is a university set up by the government of Gujarat state, India in 2009.

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Rana Ayyub

Rana Ayyub is an Indian journalist and writer.

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Sangli

Sangli (is a City and the district headquarters of Sangli District in the state of Maharashtra, in western India. It is known as the Turmeric City of Maharashtra due to its production and trade of the spice. Sangli is situated on the banks of river Krishna and houses many sugar factories.

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Sanjiv Bhatt

Sanjiv Bhatt is a former Indian Police Service officer from Gujarat.

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Supreme Court of India

The Supreme Court of India is the highest judicial forum and final court of appeal under the Constitution of India, the highest constitutional court, with the power of constitutional review.

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Telangana

Telangana is a state in the south of India.

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The Times of India

The Times of India (TOI) is an Indian English-language daily newspaper owned by The Times Group.

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Tirath Das Dogra

Tirath Das Dogra (तीरथ दास डोगरा, IAST: Tīrath Dās Ḍōgarā, born 18 July 1947) is an educationist and thinker, an Indian forensic pathologist and former Pro-Chancellor and vice-chancellor of SGT University, Budhera Gurgaon Haryana 2013–2017.

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Tulsiram Prajapati killing

Tulsiram Prajapati was an Indian criminal who was killed while in custody at 5 am on 28 December 2006.

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Ujjain district

Ujjain district is a district of Madhya Pradesh state in central India.

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1982 Gonda Encounter

The 1982 Gonda Encounter is an ongoing criminal case involving the murder of 13 people including the Deputy Superintendent of police in Gonda district of the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh.

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2009 Dehradun Encounter

The Ranbir Singh fake encounter case is an ongoing criminal case in the Uttarakhand state of India, took place on 3 July 2009, and involved fake encounter killings of Ranbir Singh, a 22-year-old MBA graduate in Dehradun.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Sohrabuddin_Sheikh

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