New Delhi
Indian police shot dead one of the country’s most wanted gangsters on Friday just a day after his dramatic arrest, sparking accusations of a staged extra-judicial killing.
Officials said Vikas Dubey, detained for the killing of eight police officers, was shot as he tried to escape a police vehicle while being driven to his home city in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh.
Within hours of TV stations carrying images of his bloodstained body lying in a hospital, rights lawyers and activists alleged that police had killed Dubey to prevent him revealing his connections with powerful people. “This is the most blatant case of extra-judicial killing. Dubey was a gangster terrorist who may have deserved to die.
