The encounter death of Vikash Dubey, a cop killer gangster from UP didn't surprise me. It reminded me of the popular dialogue in Bollywood movies, "POLICE KE SAATH JYADA DOSTI YA DUSHMANI ACHHI NAHI HAI" - it is unwise to get too friendly or inimical to police.
A few days ago the don from the badlands of UP killed nine policemen who came to arrest him. He was well informed by a mole inside the police. When the police arrived at his village farmhouse near Kanpur, they were sitting ducks for the gangster's sharp shooters. A volley of bullets came from nowhere in the darkness, resulting in the killing and maiming of multiple policemen. Apparently the don's private militia made a mincemeat of a trained police force.
This is not the first time such an incident has happened in the lawless Cow belt. In the year 1999, a dreaded gangster of UP named Sriprakash Shukla was killed. The don was famous as contract killer who operated with impunity in UP and Bihar.
He was thoroughly a pro - after shooting his victim, he would get close and pump in bullets to the victim's head and chest, ensuring his contract is completed without any loose end.
The authorities slept until they came to know that he has taken a contract of Rupess 2 crore (20 million), a sizable amount in 1999 to kill Kalyan Singh, then the Chief Minister of UP. That was the last straw for the cops to smell the coffee and wake up. Sriprakash Shukla, like many mafia Dons had a weakness for girls.
The police got scent of him entering a 5 star hotel in Delhi with a call girl in company. After his tryst with the girl, his destiny awaited him. The task force to eliminate him waited patiently outside the hotel and grabbed him as he came out after finishing his assignment. He was soon finished by the police and his body was dumped near the NOIDA expressway staged as an encounter.
Indian Police can't even visit the toilet without Neta's (politican) permission, forget about staging encounters. The top administration of the state must have given the sanctions to get rid of him. It was bound to happen, sooner or later as the gangster went too far by killing the policemen. It was a matter of time he would be eliminated - partly due to keep his mouth shut lest it would be embarrassing for many if he opened it. Other reason - if not killed, it will deeply affect the moral of police.
Not that the police here is the epitome of morality. There is a thin line between the policemen and criminals in the cow belt where the mafia runs its own parallel administration at many places. Police in hand and gloves with them is known for being inept and corrupt.
Yet if the social media is to be believed, hardly anyone is shedding a tear for Vikas Dubey. Not that they love their police, but their utter lack of confidence in our law and judiciary system makes the encounters a much attractive as well as pragmatic option. In Hindi they say "NA RAHEGA BAAS, NA RAHEGA BANSURI" - there won't be any bamboo left, so also the flute made out of it. In other words, eliminate the root cause in order to prevent it from happening again. A dead gangster is better than an alive one, as in this case. All want instance justice, no one has the patience for long, procedural process.
In the feudal set up of North India, this is certainly not going to be one last such incident. This culture will thrive in the environment of poverty, unemployment, politician - bureaucrat - mafia nexus for long time. Public memory is short. This incident will be forgotten soon as media will move to something more appealing.
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