Quote Originally Posted by Amyn View Post
What really happens is that the "encounter" is staged police so that it looks like criminals are trying to escape, guns are planted on them to make it look like the were attacking the police.

It gives the cops an excuse to simply gun down the criminals and skip the courts.

"encounter killing" = "vigilante justice"
from TFA:
"The main suspect Srinivas and accomplice Sanjay and Harikrishna were shot dead when they allegedly attacked the police party which went to recover a motor cycle used by them in the incident at Mavunoor on Friday night, SP Warangal V L Sajjanar said.

"They (accused) tried to spray the acid and the weapons and the knives. And so our people reacted and the three accused were killed. Definitely they had criminal intention to harm us," said Sajjanar. "

Sounds like the police were defending their lives. There's nothing vigilante about that, it's simple self defense. Here in Texas people use lethal force to defend themselves all the time.