Surely, the bossman ordered the hit?

"India had not heard of Vikas Dubey till 10 days ago. Every important Uttar Pradesh (UP) politician had, as had every UP police official who served in Lucknow and Kanpur; so had every gang lord in UP -- but he remained unknown to most Indians," wrote Chanakya. All of India got to hear about Dubey when he and his men allegedly shot 8 policemen to death on 3 July at his house in Dikru village, near Kanpur in UP. One member of the gang, captured after the shooting told the police that Dubey received a phone call from the police station warning him of the coming raid. The day following the deaths the police razed Dubey's house to the ground. This was done without proving his guilt in court and without any legal justification. One week later, Dubey surrendered to the police outside a temple in Ujjain in Madhya Pradesh (MP). He was being brought back to Kanpur in a car which mysteriously overturned hurting some of the police, but not Dubey who snatched a gun and tried to escape. He was shot dead by the valiant UP Police. That is what they want us to believe. In the lead up to killing him the police eliminated 6 of his aides in, what is known as, 'encounters', a euphemism for 'execution'. That, at least some people do not believe the fairy tale version of events, as narrated by the UP Police, has been demonstrated by the number of Public Interest Litigation (PILs) filed in Supreme Court requesting a thorough investigation into the entire episode, supervised by the Court. Why did Dubey sign his own death warrant by killing 8 policemen when he has been living freely despite facing "a total of 61 criminal cases, including eight of murder involving the killing of at least 15 people". It is possible that he had been warned that the squad of 50 policemen were coming to kill him, possibly because the bossman, his highest protector wanted to get rid of him. Dubey's biggest problem was that local villagers despised him because he was "brazen, hot-headed and barbaric", wrote Radhika Ramaseshan. Unlike Veerappan who avoided the police for 36 years, despite blowing up 22 policemen sent to capture him, because he distributed part of his loot to the poor and is still revered by villagers in Erode and Salem in Tamil Nadu. Regarding Dubey's killing, "if responses on social media, and the general tea shop chatter in the towns and villages are any indicator, the encounter is being widely applauded," wrote Chanakya. Indians despise civil servants, vote for criminal politicians because only they can get civil servants to work and try not to go the police even if they are victims of crimes. But, the general support for Dubey's execution is a severe indictment of our judicial system which prolongs cases for decades and finally lets criminals off for old age, but will keep a person in prison for years on a charge of contempt of court in which it alone defines the crime and the punishment. The common man describes our system as 'tarikh pe tarikh', which means 'date after date'. Dubey could not be allowed his tarikh. He know too much.