The article talks about the complex relationship between the encounter or extra judicial killings by law enforcement agencies and relative public sentiments, exploring how encounter has been influenced by the popular opinion, being legitimatized and at times being challenged for its validity in the Indian Criminal Justice System. A troubling dynamic is being witnessed due to the convergence of public opinion, political expediency, and law enforcement culture where these extra judicial killings have been normalized in spite of clear constitutional violations and legal prohibitions. The author’s prime focus is to analyse the driving factors behind these fake encounters where public sentiments are involved and its reason for variations at regional level through out India. Our Criminal Justice System is the outcome of Adversarial justice System where every person has the right to produce evidence in his favour and to defend himself with all the fair opportunities, and encounter takes away all such opportunities so it must be in accordance with law.