RIGHT TO KILL CAMOUFLAGED UNDER THE GAMUT OF “EXTRA JUDICIAL KILLINGS/POLICE ENCOUNTERS”
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Encounter, police personnel, private defence, self defence, eye-witness, arresting authority, credibility, investigation, criminal justice, terroristsAbstract
The concepts of instant justice and police violence are not novel and have been immensely popular. There are varying justifications for condoning encounters, ranging from the importance of a deterrent effect that encounters have to the burdensome mechanism of due process. In determining the authenticity of an encounter, the State asserts that such encounters were spontaneous and unplanned. Access to justice in an egalitarian democracy must be understood to mean qualitative access to justice, which is imperative of an individual’s access to courts or guaranteeing representation as enshrined under Article 21 of the Constitution. Denial of this right undermines public confidence in the justice delivery system and poses a threat to the rule of law.
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