You
cannot expect the security forces, including the police, to wear the ‘rule of
law’ on its sleeve to deal with such criminals, who care two hoots for the law
and other human beings. Therefore, Yogi Adityanath government is fully
justified in razing the house of that notorious outlaw Vinay Dube so as to
nab him. Law must serve as a deterrent for others also. Some will
say that why to bulldoze his house to catch him? By asking such questions, one
unwittingly provides a shield to the outlaws. Think of the sponsored anti
CAA protests, was it possible to control in U.P. without adopting the
unorthodox method of making the violent protesters pay for the damages caused
to the properties? No, it was not possible at all. The primary responsibility
of the government is to maintain law order and for that purpose, it may adopt
all means at its command.
There is
no doubt that in Uttar Pradesh all political parties, without exception, have
given protection to criminals on the basis of their religion and the caste.
This is for the first time, that the criminals are facing the heat regardless
of their caste or religion. Hence, those who criticize the
government for demolition of his house because he happens to be is a Brahmin,
while no such steps have been taken against many other tough criminals
belonging to other religions and castes, are totally wrong. Such critics are
misguided, parochial and are bringing slur to the entire Brahmin community,
which is known for being peace-loving and law-abiding. Vinay Dube, a
hardened criminal, has killed and committed more atrocities on Brahmins than
others. The Killing of eight Police personnel deserves no soft
approach, particularly from Brahmins. It, is a well-known fact, that some
twenty years ago when Vinay had hardly past his teens, had killed a
Brahmin, holding the post of a Minister of State Uttar Pradesh in the
broad daylight, that too, in the police station. He was acquitted from the
court of law because all prosecution witnesses turned hostile. Can a daredevil
goonda, who got eight policemen, including a deputy SP rank officer, be shown
any leniency in the name of law? Obviously, the reply would be an emphatic NO.
Some
twenty years ago, I had asked a retired Sessions judge from Panjab, who was
then practising in the Delhi High Court, that how come most of the
terrorists in the early eighties were getting acquitted by the trial courts?
What he told was shocking but correct to the last millimetre. The inherent
weaknesses of the criminal justice delivery system are that it is exceedingly
difficult to bring criminals to book and dispense justice. Witnesses do not
come forward to depose against the criminals for fear of their and their family
members being annihilated.
However,
the modus operandi of the late KPS Gill, who had the full support of the
then Chief Minister Sardar Beant Singh and the steely resolve of the then Prime
Minister PV Narsimha Rao, helped restore the law and order in the state. Many
people had started saying that Panjab had gone out of the hand, but due to the trio of KPS Gill, Beant Singh and PV Narasimha Rao, Panjab became one of the
most peaceful states of India.
The
condition in J & K was much worse, happily, that is also fast coming
back to normalcy thanks to the out of the box methods being adopted by the
security forces in dealing with dreaded Pakistani funded terrorists.
The case
of Vinay Dube is different from other terrorist activities only in the sense
that while at other places, terrorism was/is sponsored but here he has become a
terror unto himself, which cannot sustain for very long. He will, doubtless, be
crushed sooner than later by the State government. The police of Uttar Pradesh
has been getting laurels for its most humanitarian handling during the
Coronavirus but it will have to refurbish and clean itself from the
departmental rats and moles who are found to be in cahoots with criminals and
pass on the information to them before the raids are conducted to their
premises.
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