After eight police personnel were killed attempting to arrest gangster Vikas Dubey in Kanpur on July 3, few expected the criminal to be cau...
After eight police personnel were killed attempting to arrest gangster Vikas Dubey in Kanpur on July 3, few expected the criminal to be caught alive. There was little faith that the Uttar Pradesh Police under Chief Minister Adityanath would actually follow the law. So when Dubey was arrested in Ujjain, Madhya Pradesh on Thursday, it came as an enormous surprise.
Sure enough, soon after the politically connected Dubey was handed over to the Uttar Pradesh Special Task Force, he has been killed in custody.
The official line is that he tried to escape when one of the vehicles escorting him back to Uttar Pradesh had an accident and was killed in an “encounter”, the Indian euphemism for an extra-judicial murder by the police.
For the sake of argument, let us take the claims of the Uttar Pradesh Police at face value. Their job, once Dubey was in their custody, was to transport him back to their jurisdiction and then hold him accountable in a court of law for the long list of crimes for which he has been booked.
Instead, the police were unable to handle the simple task of moving him safely from Ujjain to Kanpur. On this count, it is clear that the police has completely failed....
