India, June 17 -- Since 1983, the Pune police have carried out as many as 19 encounters across the city and Pimpri-Chinchwad, the latter previously being under the unified Pune city Commissionerate. The encounters have been largely aimed at dismantling organised crime networks and containing the growing threat of gang violence and extortion in the Pune Metropolitan Region (PMR).

The most recent encounter occurred on Sunday in Solapur, leading to the death of Tipu Pathan gang member, Shahrukh alias Atti Rahim Shaikh, who was killed in retaliatory firing by the police after he attacked them. Additional commissioner of police (crime), Pankaj Deshmukh, said, "Our team went to Solapur when we received information that this notorious criminal ...