THE LONG ARM OF VIKAS DUBEY

Kanpur’s dreaded don Vikas Dubey has become more of a nuisance dead than he was alive, at least for the Yogi Adityanath government in Uttar Pradesh. It has been under attack from all corners since the morning of July 3 when news spread that the gangster had massacred eight policemen in his village Bikru. Almost two weeks later, allegations of political patronage and Dubey’s links with the police have still not died down, even though he is gone, killed in a police encounter on July 10.

Amid increasing political pressure, Chief Minister Adityanath formed a Special Investigation Team (SIT) on July 11, and then, a day later, a one-man judicial commission headed by retired high court judge Shashikant Aggarwal. The SIT will investigate