Bahujan Samaj Celebration chief Mayawati questioned if the U.P. authorities, to cover its embarrassment of not having made a lot headway into the Umesh Pal homicide case, will enact a Vikas Dubey-type encounter, on Tuesday.
Vikas Dubey was a gangster from Kanpur who was killed in an encounter. Police had claimed that he died in an encounter whereas attempting to flee after the police car during which he was being introduced again to UP from Madhya Pradesh (the place he was caught) overturned in July 2020.
The police have thus far killed two individuals in separate encounters, together with one whom the police claimed was straight concerned in Umesh Pal’s killing.
On Tuesday, Mayawati questioned by way of a tweet if the police would enact one other Vikas Dubey encounter. The tweet got here shortly after Samajwadi Celebration veteran Ram Gopal Yadav said that one of the 2 sons of mafioso Atiq Ahmad, whose title had surfaced within the Umesh Pal homicide case, could also be killed.
“After Umesh Pal’s homicide in Prayagraj, what the police have finished in a hurried follow-up act is earlier than everybody. The police motion thus far has resulted in a lot suspicion. Will the federal government perform one other Vikas Dubey-type incident to cover its personal failure,” Mayawati tweeted on Tuesday afternoon.
“In any case, there may be appreciable stress on the UP authorities over the broad daylight homicide of Umesh Pal, a key witness in BSP MLA Raju Pal homicide. Now, the whole nation is watching if the federal government will comply with the rule of law or eradicate the criminals on the highway to finish crime,” she added additional.
Umesh Pal was killed close to his home in Prayagraj on February 24. Two of his safety guards who have been additionally injured within the assault, additionally succumbed to their accidents later.
A number of days after the sensational killing, mafioso Atiq Ahmad’s spouse Shaista Parveen, who had joined the BSP in January, wrote to chief minister Yogi Adityanath on February 28, alleging a conspiracy behind Umesh Pal’s homicide.
Whereas claiming that her household had no position in Umesh Pal’s homicide had Parveen had additionally mentioned that two of her minor sons have been lacking and she or he feared for his or her lives together with that of her different members of the family.
She had alleged that her household was being framed by a senior politician who was upset at her being named candidate for the mayor’s submit by the BSP management.
The UP civic polls are anticipated to be held after the devoted OBC fee set as much as finalise backward quota submits its report newest by March 31, the deadline set by the Supreme Court docket to submit the quota plan in these city polls.
BJP dismissed such considerations.
“In UP, the criminals regardless of who they’re or the place they’ve gone to cover, is not going to survive. The law will meet up with them. However those that are harmless shouldn’t fear in any respect,” mentioned UP BJP chief Himanshu Dubey.