Looks like Dubey has chosen jail over the risk of getting killed in an encounter. We need him to expose the politico-criminal nexus

In a big slap to the Uttar Pradesh (UP) Police, the dreaded don of Shivli, Vikas Dubey, was arrested from Ujjain in Madhya Pradesh (MP) six days after giving his State police the slip post the massacre of eight cops by him and his henchmen. Though the UP Police tried its best to nab the don, who was tipped off about a raid on his premises by traitor cops, he remained elusive. Till he himself decided to surrender somewhat by shouting out his name. Dubey, who is a product of the political-bureaucratical-criminal nexus, has clearly cut a deal that allows the police to save whatever little face is left of it and probably negotiate his jail term vis-à-vis the bounty on his head. The last would have definitely resulted in his death, sooner rather than later.  Always one step ahead of the police, the don wanted to ensure his survival as five of his aides, Amar Dubey, Prem Prakash Pandey, Atul Dubey, Prabhat Mishra and Praveen Dubey have so far been killed in separate gunfights in multiple locations.

Dubey’s surrender in MP and the encounters of his close aides are raising many questions. Why kill? Why not capture alive? In the normal course of things these men would have been more valuable to the police alive than dead as they would have been able to shed light on the don’s activities, modus operandi and connections, both in the police and in political circles. But that exposure would be too damaging. So it is better to have dead men, who can tell no tales. Another question that is being raised repeatedly is how, with a Rs 5 lakh bounty on his head, his face plastered in posters put up across several States, 25 special UP Police teams on his heels and a massive manhunt across Delhi, Haryana, UP, MP and in the Indo-Nepal border areas, did Dubey manage to travel? He covered 700 km traversing UP, Haryana, Rajasthan and then MP by road in a car undetected. In fact, even the senior UP cops find this an incredible feat and IPS officer Amitabh Thakur has sought a probe into how “we could not arrest him even after such a huge incident and he kept travelling around?” Yet another question that needs to be asked is that if pictures of Dubey at a hotel in Faridabad were doing the rounds of social media, how come the police were not aware of it? Would the police have us believe that this was just plain luck? Logic would dictate that he did have some help in escaping the police net. So the obvious question is was this help from the police or his political mentors? Only time will tell.