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Kanpur: In a dramatic early morning development on Friday, notorious gangster Vikas Dubey, who surrendered in Ujjain on Thursday, was killed in an encounter. Dubey was being taken to Kanpur to be produced in court, but the vehicle he was travelling in overturned due to heavy rain.
The police said that after the accident, Dubey snatched the rifle of an STF personnel and tried to flee but was surrounded by the cops and was injured in an exchange of fire. Dubey was taken to the emergency ward of the Hallett Hospital in blood-soaked condition, where doctors confirmed his death.
How Twitter reacted
While many applauded the UP police for the encounter, many smelled conspiracy and raised questions as to why was he killed in this manner? Was it because he knew many secrets of many politicians and could have exposed them? Had he been alive, his testimony could have indicted several others who were responsible for the killing of eight policemen in Kanpur, opined many.
”Why wasn’t he in handcuffs or chained while he was being taken in the vehicle? Why would Vikas Dubey try to escape when he had already surrendered”, were other pertinent questions raised.
All through Friday morning, Twitter raised doubts on the competence of Uttar Pradesh Police and flooded the platform with accusations and conspiracy theories. Many social media users called it a fake encounter, saying how these dramatic events seemed straight from a movie plot.
One user wrote, ”Was it a fake encounter? Was it pre-planned? Was it because he knew the dirty secrets of politics? No jurisdiction? #vikasDubeyEncounter.”
Here are other such tweets:
He just knew too much. This is a classic suggestive sign of #VikasDubey knowing too much about too many politicians and the police force! #vikasDubeyEncounter
— Chaiti Narula (@Chaiti) July 10, 2020
Le corrupt politicians after vikasdubey encounter #vikasDubeyEncounter pic.twitter.com/HY91t00CSu
— A∂ιтվɑ (@lalu9980) July 10, 2020
After knowing #vikasDubeyEncounter
Politicians who are involved be like: pic.twitter.com/IJtIC76Pij
— Prashant Hans Lucky (@aluckydna) July 10, 2020
https://twitter.com/ARYAN15565304/status/1281444173669789697
Wake up and it was like i am watching a Rohit Shetty's movie.
He can reveal the name of all those who supported him. To save them it's a pre-planned political murder.#vikasDubeyEncounter #UPPolice#FakeEncounter #VikasDubeykilled#YogiAdityanath #VikasDubey #KanpurEncounter pic.twitter.com/IlyLFkqoZS— Priyank Sharma (@iPriyankSharma) July 10, 2020
BJP IT CELL will show this encounter as a great act of courage
But we all know what will happen to a gangster if he has secrets politicians and police
Well played up police and up govt#vikasDubeyEncounter pic.twitter.com/cqAxovbVIK— naman pandit (@namanpndit) July 10, 2020
All the politician of uttar pradesh right now: #FakeEncounter #vikasDubeyEncounter pic.twitter.com/XzToJtHZTo
— vivek bhardwaj (@vivekbhardwaj41) July 10, 2020
#vikasDubeyEncounter
Everyone – who was his godfather politician/officer? 🤔
Me– pic.twitter.com/PFDXzqy7Sl— ShubHaM SiNgH (@boogeyman__12) July 10, 2020
Meet Christopher Nolan he has Made films like Inception, Interstellar and currently working on Tenet.
UP police can contact Nolan for better scripts and direction of the scenes.#vikasDubeyEncounter#fakeencounter pic.twitter.com/TLwzpB6K5b
— Teju surya 2.0 (@Tejusurya_) July 10, 2020
https://twitter.com/pra_tea_k/status/1281433182609367040
JUST IN : UP Police has been nominated for Best Original Screenplay award at this year's Academy awards – Sources.#vikasDubeyEncounter
— Norbert Elekes (@rohitadhikari92) July 10, 2020
A script that would put many Bollywood movies to shame!#VikasDubey #vikasDubeyEncounter
— Zeeshan Siddique (@zeeshan_iyc) July 10, 2020
#VikasDubey एंकाउंटर में मारा गया।
कई लोगों ने पहले ही ये आशंका जताई थी।
पर अनेकों सवाल छूट गए-
1. अगर उसे भागना ही था, तो उज्जैन में सरेंडर ही क्यों किया?
2. उस अपराधी के पास क्या राज थे जो सत्ता-शासन से गठजोड़ को उजागर करते?
3. पिछले 10 दिनों की कॉल डिटेल्ज़ जारी क्यों नहीं? pic.twitter.com/B87UqYiqPf— Randeep Singh Surjewala (@rssurjewala) July 10, 2020
Even before today’s events unfolded, many including prominent journalists had predicted that he would be killed in an encounter:
A retired IPS officer tells me: ‘It’s unlikely Vikas Dubey will be caught; he and associates will be mostly ‘encountered’, they know too many secrets about too many ‘big’ people’” well, it’s day 6 since the gangster escaped after killing 8 policemen. Watch this space!
— Rajdeep Sardesai (@sardesairajdeep) July 9, 2020
Terrorist Vikas Dubey will become the most powerful mafia in UP if he surrenders and is sent to jail. UP jails are known to be hubs from where the mafia run their business. https://t.co/dVg9XJep8B
— Rohini Singh (@rohini_sgh) July 4, 2020
Vikas Dubey surrendered to MP Police, as he would be killed by UP police in staged encounter as he can implicate many in the UP police & govt. May still be 'encountered' after he is handed over to @Uppolice https://t.co/sd5cQXXXbX
— Prashant Bhushan (@pbhushan1) July 9, 2020
The script is ready. Vikas Dubey will be killed in an encounter in the next few days. The media & SM will go to town hailing Yogi Aditynath. Will be his mini Pulwama, boosting his popularity. No one will question who leaked the info of the operations or on his political patronage
— Asim Ali (@AsimAli6) July 3, 2020
Politicians and officers also raise questions
A senior police officer, who has been one of the founding officers of the STF in Uttar Pradesh was also of the same opinion and mocked the functioning of STF. He told IANS, “The Special Task Force (STF) now has very bad scriptwriters and the Vikas Dubey story proves it. Why would someone, who had surrendered on Thursday in Madhya Pradesh to escape being killed, try to escape on Friday.”
Samajwadi Party President Akhilesh Yadav said: “The SUV has not overturned, it is the government that has overturned. The political links of the gangster have been quietly buried in the investigations and people will never know the truth.”
A retired DGP, meanwhile, reiterated the same and said that Vikas had been eliminated to save some political leaders.
“The entire scenario is crystal clear. His photographs with politicians, top government officers had been going viral on the social media and it is obvious that he was better dead than alive. The people know what is the truth and the issue will snowball into a major controversy.
Senior Congress leader Jitin Prasada said: “With the end of Vikas Dubey in custody, the government has ensured that the trail which would have exposed his nexus with people in positions of power who allowed criminals like him to flourish, has ended too.”
Who was Vikas Dubey?
Vikas Dubey, one of UP’s most wanted criminal, had killed at least eight police personnel, including Deputy Superintendent Devendra Mishra, in Kanpur last week.
Dubey’s criminal record dates back to 1990 and over the years, he has been charged with various degrees of attempted murder, kidnapping, extortion, rioting and so on.
(With Agency inputs)
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