Justice Deepak Gupta—Brazen Flouting of Law in Vikas Dubey Encounter Doesn’t Portend Well for India
- 3 years ago
The killing of gangster Vikas Dubey by the Uttar Pradesh police has put the spotlight back on encounters and extrajudicial killings.
While the police's theory of this encounter is tough to believe, there is a large section of people that's hailing it as ultimate justice. While there are serious questions on the legal validity of this whole encounter, there are concerns on the weakening of the rule of law, whether the people, the upholders who have the responsibility of upholding rule of law, are the ones who are weakening it. Vikas Dubey had a three-decade-long career in crime, more than 60 cases against him and about half a dozen murder cases.
On this issue, Senior Editor of The Wire Arfa Khanum Sherwani Speaks to Former Judge of the Supreme Court Deepak Gupta.
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While the police's theory of this encounter is tough to believe, there is a large section of people that's hailing it as ultimate justice. While there are serious questions on the legal validity of this whole encounter, there are concerns on the weakening of the rule of law, whether the people, the upholders who have the responsibility of upholding rule of law, are the ones who are weakening it. Vikas Dubey had a three-decade-long career in crime, more than 60 cases against him and about half a dozen murder cases.
On this issue, Senior Editor of The Wire Arfa Khanum Sherwani Speaks to Former Judge of the Supreme Court Deepak Gupta.
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