A petitioner who moved the Supreme Court seeking independent probe into the police encounter killings in Uttar Pradesh, has alleged that the state government had attempted to mislead the Apex Court by hiding crucial facts in its status report. While rejecting the status report submitted by the state of Uttar Pradesh, Advocate Vishal Tiwari contended that encounter killings were often celebrated as achievements in state police, which rewarded such officials by giving them out-of-turn promotio...