e/Encounter killings by police

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has gloss	eng: Encounter killings is a euphemism used in India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh to describe extrajudicial killings in which police shoot down alleged gangsters and terrorists in gun battles. These killings are also called police encounters. Encounter killings were common in Mumbai, India, from the 1990s through the mid 2000s and some of the police officers involved came to be known as Encounter Specialists. The Mumbai police resorted to encounter killings as they believed that these killings delivered speedy justice. Encounter killings severely crippled the Underworld in Mumbai and busted the extortion racket which was rampant at that time. Human rights activists consider these encounter killings, together with torture by police in lock-ups and custodial deaths to be "gross human rights violations".
lexicalization	eng: Encounter killings by police
instance of	(noun) an inoffensive or indirect expression that is substituted for one that is considered offensive or too harsh euphemism