USHA DEVI Vs. UNION OF INDIA

JUDGEMENT

(1.) -The present criminal misc. writ petition relates to the controversial killing/death of Arvind Kumar Gaur son of late Sri Ram Lolarak resident of village of Sarkoni Bazar, police station Jalalpur, district Jaunpur. There are two versions in regard to his death. The version of the police is that he was killed in police encounter and the other version is that he was eliminated under a planned conspiracy of the police.

(2.) THE reliefs sought in the writ petition are to transfer the investigation of the killing/death of Arvind Kumar Gaur to some other independent agency and to provide adequate compensation to the petitioner, as her husband has been killed by the police personnel in contravention to the Article 21 of the Constitution of India.

(3.) WE have heard Sri B. R. Yadav, learned counsel for the petitioners, Sri Sanjay Singh, learned counsel for the Union of India, learned A.G.A. for the State and perused the record.