"Agar apradh karenge toh thok diye jayenge"
This statement of Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath drew lot of attention and grabbed prime time debate slot, back in 2017.
Two years later, Yogi Adityanath government sent a communique to all district magistrates, asking them to publicise over 3,200 encounters and 79 killings as achievement in the first 16 months of the government.
Today, after 40 teams, 150 raids, 100 hours of search............one new name added to the list, Vikas Dubey.
Gangster Vikas Dubey's death has once again put the spotlight on the steep rise in encounters in Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath's tenure. Dubey was killed in an encounter on July 10 after a police vehicle carrying him from Ujjain to Kanpur had met with an accident and he tried to escape from the spot in Bhauti area. Its hard to believe that Vikas was killed by police in 'self-defence' while he fired at them in an attempt to flee. At the same time UP police can go ahead with this much dramatic and Dabangg style of banal script. Attesting to the farce is the killing of Dubey's aide Prabhat in an 'encounter' in exactly the same manner a day earlier.
It's completely wrong to blame the UP police for not taking the action, what more could they have done apart from registering 62 cases against Vikas Dubey and also they razed his house in Kanpur in an attempt to find him. Is razing Dubey's house is justified, under what law? Let alone the brazenness involved in demolishing the house, the administration might have committed the crime of destroying crucial evidence.
This is not to justify that he was innocent, but it seems that now it has become a public fantasy to display such action prohibiting authorities to bring guilty/culprits before court. This all has become a complete theaterisation of a constitutional democracy, where the culprit symbolizes as Villain in the public consciousness. Then comes the Uttar Pradesh Police in Singham/dabbang style demonstrating their super powers under the command of the concerned government, reaps abundant praise. Meanwhile, the law has been asked to take a stroll.
These kind of worrisome action is the growing consensus by-passing the due process of law. It hurts both society and democracy. Precisely because of this, people might mobilise against this perverse tendency for instant justice.
This statement of Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath drew lot of attention and grabbed prime time debate slot, back in 2017.
Two years later, Yogi Adityanath government sent a communique to all district magistrates, asking them to publicise over 3,200 encounters and 79 killings as achievement in the first 16 months of the government.
Today, after 40 teams, 150 raids, 100 hours of search............one new name added to the list, Vikas Dubey.
Gangster Vikas Dubey's death has once again put the spotlight on the steep rise in encounters in Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath's tenure. Dubey was killed in an encounter on July 10 after a police vehicle carrying him from Ujjain to Kanpur had met with an accident and he tried to escape from the spot in Bhauti area. Its hard to believe that Vikas was killed by police in 'self-defence' while he fired at them in an attempt to flee. At the same time UP police can go ahead with this much dramatic and Dabangg style of banal script. Attesting to the farce is the killing of Dubey's aide Prabhat in an 'encounter' in exactly the same manner a day earlier.
It's completely wrong to blame the UP police for not taking the action, what more could they have done apart from registering 62 cases against Vikas Dubey and also they razed his house in Kanpur in an attempt to find him. Is razing Dubey's house is justified, under what law? Let alone the brazenness involved in demolishing the house, the administration might have committed the crime of destroying crucial evidence.
This is not to justify that he was innocent, but it seems that now it has become a public fantasy to display such action prohibiting authorities to bring guilty/culprits before court. This all has become a complete theaterisation of a constitutional democracy, where the culprit symbolizes as Villain in the public consciousness. Then comes the Uttar Pradesh Police in Singham/dabbang style demonstrating their super powers under the command of the concerned government, reaps abundant praise. Meanwhile, the law has been asked to take a stroll.
These kind of worrisome action is the growing consensus by-passing the due process of law. It hurts both society and democracy. Precisely because of this, people might mobilise against this perverse tendency for instant justice.
