But (Uttar Pradesh) police have killed him to shut his mouth," Supreme Court lawyer Prashant Bhushan wrote on Twitter. He was said to have shot dead an Uttar Pradesh state minister inside a police station in 2001. He finally gave himself up in a temple in Madhya Pradesh state on Thursday. According to the police account, the car transporting him early Friday overturned on a wet road in neighbouring Uttar Pradesh and he tried to escape. Uttar Pradesh chief minister Yogi Adityanath, a senior member of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Bharatiya Janata Party, has publicly endorsed police killings as a "deterrent" to crime.

Source: Ethiopian News July 10, 2020 15:33 UTC