Gangster MLC Reetlal Yadav (C) being released from jail after he was granted bail, ahead of Bihar Assembly elections, at Danapur in Patna.
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Uttar Pradesh ADG (Law and Order) Prashant Kumar (C) along with other officers adresses a press conference after the arrest of gangster Vikas Dubey's aide Shashikant Pandey, in Kan...
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Police take away gangster Vikas Dubey's aide Shashikant Pandey, an accused in July 3 Kanpur ambush, after he was arrested from Chaubepur in Kanpur. Eight policemen were killed in t...
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Arvind Ramvilas Trivedi, alias Guddan, an associate of slain gangster Vikas Dubey, and his diver Sushil Kumar after they were handed over the UP Police, in Thane. Both were arreste...
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Police personnel at the encounter site where gangster Vikas Dubey was killed when he allegedly tried to escape from the spot following an accident, near Kanpur.
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The body of gangster Vikas Dubey being brought for post-mortem at the Hallet Hospital in Kanpur.
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Police and media personnel at the Lala Lajpat Rai Hospital (Hallet Hospital) where the body of gangster Vikas Dubey was brought for post-mortem in Kanpur. Dubey, accused of killing...
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Police officers cordon the site where top criminal Vikas Dubey was killed near Kanpur.
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Policemen inspect the site where top criminal Vikas Dubey was killed near Kanpur. The top suspect in dozens of crimes, including the killings of eight police officers last week, wa...
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Notorious gangster Vikas Dubey, the main accused in killing of eight policemen in the Kanpur encounter recently, being apprehended by police personnel after a nearly week-long manh...
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Sarla Dubey, mother of alleged gangster Vikas Dubey, speaks to media personnel in Lucknow. Gangster Vikas Dubey was arrested in Madhya Pradesh’s Ujjain on Thursday after a six-da...
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An overturned vehicle at the encounter site where gangster Vikas Dubey was killed while he tried to escape from the spot following an accident, near Kanpur. Dubey, accused of killi...
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The body of gangster Vikas Dubey at the Hallet Hospital in Kanpur. Dubey was killed in an encounter when he allegedly tried to escape from an accident spot while being brought to K...
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Police personnel at the Hallet Hospital where the body of gangster Vikas Dubey was brought for post-mortem in Kanpur. Dubey, accused of killing eight policemen, was killed in an en...
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Police personnel try to pump water out of the well at notorious gangster Vikas Dubey's residence on suspicion of arms and ammunition to be hidden in it, in Kanpur. Dubey was involv...
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Shyamu Bajpai, an aide of notorious Vikas Dubey who was involved in an ambush in Kanpur last week, arrested after an encounter by the Chaubeypur police, in Kanpur.
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In this undated photo is seen notorious gangster Vikas Dubey with his aide Amar Dubey (L) during an event. Amar was killed in an encounter at Maudaha village in Hamirpur district.
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Gangster Jitender Mann alias Gogi, along with three others, brought to PHQ after being arrested from Gurugram district of Haryana by special cell of Delhi Police, in New Delhi.
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Gangster Kaushal, arrested by the Special Task Force of Haryana Police from Delhi's Palam Airport in connection with the murder of Congress leader Vikas Chaudhary, being shown to t...
When media persons asked Vikas Dubey's wife, Richa, what she thought of the events that led to her husband's death, she agitatedly said, 'Yes...Vikas did wrong and he deserved this fate.'
While the encounter of criminals may be a knee-jerk response, we need to go for cultural overhaul of the police, bureaucracy and politicians as a long term solution to this deeper malaise.
The purported letter, if found true, could be damning evidence that a tip-off to Vikas Dubey about the raid was the handiwork of a senior police officer.
The disturbing thing is that a large number of people strongly approve of meting out instant justice, writes former Director General of Police Dr NC Asthana
The setting up of fast-track courts by the Nitish Kumar government in 2006 to facilitate speedy trials to dispose of long-pending criminal cases has silenced gangsters
The past four decades or so in between those days of dacoity -- a remnant of a pre-modern, feudal order -- and present day-gangsterism offer us a fascinating alternate social history of UP.