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RESEARCH PROPOSAL

Fake encounters: a sociological analysis of cause and consequences

Society is a mixture of different kinds of people who have different experiences and expectations about life and have different situations and perspectives in life. Sociology accepts this heterogeneity with the complete spirit. As expected theseheterogeneity creates some type of social disturbances. No society is free from so called ‘deviance’ and from ‘criminals’. Sociologists addressed these social issues from its root. As Emile Durkheim is pointed out from Primitive society (having mechanical solidarity) to Modern society the repressive law and order system is replaced withrestitutivelaws. So the modern society treated or corrected each deviant, whether he/she is criminal or not, with a set of laws comes under the category restitutive,which calls not for revenge but rather for the return of things to the conditions which would have prevailed had the legal offenses not occurred.

But it is accepted that all the criminals cannot be treated alike. So in some criminal cases which threaten the security of the nation or of the same nature, State uses some kind of repressive laws. That’swhy judiciary system still executes death penalty. From the early days, policeencounters are common in India. Encounters were treated as the preventive measure taken by the state to overcome some crisis like terrorist attacks.

When it comes to the case of India, the nation victimized a number of terrorist attacks like Parliament attack, Mumbai Terrorist attack and so on and most of them are tied with some terrorist groups or religious community. Most of the cases, a number of persons were arrested and the majority of them were educated youth .As the number of terrorists attacks increased, the number of ‘encounters’ is also increased. And State and People were celebrated each encounters with media. Because they believed that each encounter secures their life and nation. But within a short time, some of the journalists, Social activists and NGO revealed the tales of encounters and theydeclared most of the encounters as‘fake encounters’.

This study focuses on the cause and consequences of these typesof fake encounters occurred in India during the last 15 years.

The main cause of these encounters is for promotion in jobs and some of the writers link the cause to the situation/periods of encounter. As a social activist wrote in his work, whenever the state faces a crisis whether it is political or economican encounter or terrorist attack occurs. Some of the scholars discussed the politics of terrorist attack and of encounter. Some social workers addresses this issue as the minority problems, because most of the accused where comes under some minority population like Muslims, Dalit,and so on.

The consequences of encounter were considered as decrease of chance of terrorist like attacks. But when it comes to the case of fake encounters, the consequence is more than we can expect. It constructed an image of the concept ‘Terrorist’. But unfortunately some communities were treated as terrorist and some type of dress code,believes, books,writings,etc. were treated as the most dangerous tools of terrorist. These concepts were concreted on the society as quickly as possible. Even after the truth behind those encounters were revealed, the concepts were still exists in the society. And these fake encounters decreased faith in encounters and in media reports. The media is criticized by the people for the reporting of fake encounters. New medias were took birth as the result of the criticism. Most of the medias were conducted an investigation on whether those cases were fabricated or not. Most of the new Medias like websites, Social media pages, Groups on social media,blogs, etc. were operated on internet or on e-platform only. Those were managed by the people who are not professionally qualified journalists. This raised role of media and journalists on ‘fake encounters’ and a positive impact is present on some of the reporting. As the result of ‘fake encounters’, people started to raise questions on all the cases whether it is a small case or a big one. This can be treated as positive impact of ‘fake encounter’.

Even though this study focuses on fake encounters only, the researcher is well aware of that, it is not an isolated topic. So, the researcher will surely look at the terrorist attacks, community riots, to the draconian laws enacted as the result of terrorist attacks and encounters, to the social situation, to the media’s role and so on.

OBJECTIVES

Main objective: To study the cause and consequences of ‘fake encounters’ in India on the light of sociology.

Other objectives:

To trace the history of encounters in the world.

To know the history of encounters in India (last 15 years)

To know the sociology of encounters

To know about the all official and informative data on Fake encounters.

To understand ,the impact of this trend on Indian polity and society

To search for sociological theories related to encountering and fake encounters

To examine some fake encounters with its cause and consequences.

METHODOLOGY

The method of study is case study. Here researcher discuss and deals with fake encounters and its experiences in India. Researcher collected available documents, articles and arguments about it and its criticisms.

TOOLS OF STUDY

The data collection will be consists of primary and secondary data.Secondary data were collected from Government official documents like official websites, ordinances and press notes, Articles published in research journals Articles published in national dailies, Magazines, Interviews published in magazines, Books, Documentories,Films and so on.

Primary sources were short Interviews.

CHAPTERIZATION

Chapter1-Introduction

Need of social control,devinaces, crimes, terrorist attacks, communal riots, encounters in short are included.

Chapter 2-History of world encounters

The major encounters occurred in the world with its social background and cause and consequences of acceptance of encounters are included.Thepractice of fake encounters are also included.

Chapter 3- Indian Encounters

The major encounters happened in India were studied from history.The last 15 years of encounters were studied with special focus and it includes almost all the government and non-government reports on fake encounters.

Chapter 3-Sociology of encounters

The different perspectives of encounter will be included on this chapter with special focus on recent sociological studies and theories. The sociology of fake encounters are also included.

Chapter 4-Encounters

The distinction between encounters in real and fake are discussed with the help of varies documents including government and non-government. The numbers of fake encounters with respect to the real are studied. The socio-political cause and consequences of fake encounters are discussed. The positive and negative impacts were included.

Chapter 5-Experinces of fake encounters in India

The comparison of rate of occurrence of fake encounters is noted. Some of the fake encounters are studied very closely and deeply. The media’s reporting pattern, the social changes, the common factors in accused are discussed.

Chapter 6-Conclusion

Cause and consequences are analyzed and the statistics of fake encounters were compared. The role of sociologist on fake encounters is understood.

Submitted to,

Faculties,

Department of sociology

University of Hyderabad