oppn parties Dubey Cremated, Nexus Buried

News Snippets

  • The Indian envoy in Bangladesh was summoned by the country's government over the breach in the Bangladesh mission in Agartala
  • Bank account to soon have 4 nominees each
  • TMC and SP stayed away from the INDIA bloc protest over the Adani issue in the Lok Sabha
  • Delhi HC stops the police from arresting Nadeem Khan over a viral video which the police claimed promoted 'enmity'. Court says 'India's harmony not so fragile'
  • Trafiksol asked to refund IPO money by Sebi on account of alleged fraud
  • Re goes down to 84.76 against the USD but ends flat after RBI intervenes
  • Sin goods like tobacco, cigarettes and soft drinks likely to face 35% GST in the post-compensation cess era
  • Bank credit growth slows to 11% (20.6% last year) with retail oans also showing a slowdown
  • Stock markets continue their winning streak on Tuesday: Sensex jumps 597 points to 80845 and Nifty gains 181 points to 24457
  • Asian junior hockey: Defending champions India enter the finals by beating Malaysia 3-1, to play Pakistan for the title
  • Chess World title match: Ding Liren salvages a sraw in the 7th game which he almost lost
  • Experts speculate whether Ding Liren wants the world title match against D Gukesh to go into tie-break after he let off Gukesh easily in the 5th game
  • Tata Memorial Hospital and AIIMS have severely criticized former cricketer and Congress leader Navjot Singh Sidhu for claiming that his wife fought back cancer with home remedies like haldi, garlic and neem. The hospitals warned the public for not going for such unproven remedies and not delaying treatment as it could prove fatal
  • 3 persons died and scores of policemen wer injured when a survey of a mosque in Sambhal near Bareilly in UP turned violent
  • Bangladesh to review power pacts with Indian companies, including those of the Adani group
D Gukesh is the new chess world champion at 18, the first teen to wear the crown. Capitalizes on an error by Ding Liren to snatch the crown by winning the final game g
oppn parties
Dubey Cremated, Nexus Buried

By Sunil Garodia
First publised on 2020-07-11 12:01:33

About the Author

Sunil Garodia Editor-in-Chief of indiacommentary.com. Current Affairs analyst and political commentator.

Vikas Dubey first gained notoriety in 2001 when he was alleged to have chased Santosh Shukla, a minister of state in the then BJP government of Rajnath Singh, and shot him point-blank inside the Shivli police station in the Kanpur Dehat area. At that time, since the BJP was ruling the state and he had killed a leader of the ruling party, it is obvious that he was not in their pay. Either he was working to set up his nefarious empire and was eliminating those who were causing hurdles or he was working for any of the other parties. Whatever be the reason, surprisingly, the trigger happy UP police did not eliminate him then.

Since then, the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) and the Samajwadi Party (SP) have ruled the state alternately. Mayawati was chief minister from 2002 to 2003. Then Mulayam Singh Yadav took over in 2003-2007. Mayawati again helmed the state from 2007 to 2012 after which it was the turn of Akhilesh Yadav from 2012 to 2017. Dubey had surrendered in 2002 in the Santosh Shukla murder case but was surprisingly acquitted during the SP rule in 2006. He killed Shukla inside a police station and there must have been many witnesses, yet the prosecution could not get him convicted. The BSP and the SP are more responsible for his growth as a dreaded criminal from 2002 to 2017. In these 15 years, the small-time crook had become one of the most dreaded dons in the state.

Yet, ever since the BJP came to power in 2017 and Yogi Adityanath gave a carte blanche to the already trigger happy UP police to go after criminals, a good number of them were eliminated. Strangely, although Dubey was not a BJP man, he continued to thrive. What does this mean? Did Dubey change political colours in 2017? Was the ruling party instrumental in giving him protection for the last three years? If so, what changed now and why did the administration allow the police to raid his house in Bikru and capture him?

The answers to all these questions will never be known with the death of Vikas Dubey. The manner of his arrest, his transfer to UP, the accident and the killing, all look staged. Eyewitnesses in Ujjain confirmed that Dubey surrendered while the MP police claimed to have arrested him. The UP police showed a great deal of urgency in taking him to UP. He was not handcuffed in the car. There are reports that he was shifted to a different car just before the accident happened and the press cars following the convoy carrying Dubey were stopped before the accident site. All these things point to a big conspiracy and the UP government must come clean instead of gloating over eliminating a hardened criminal. For, it has done a great disservice to the country by forever burying the nexus that helped Dubey and will now continue to help other criminals, with greater impunity. 

picture courtesy: additions made by us to the original picture by debasish deb appearing in iastoppers.com