When an accused is killed in a staged encounter, that’s not justice. It’s short-circuiting of justice. And when such encounters become government policy, we are living under mafia rule, not under rule of law. Amit Shah launched the encounter raj in Gujarat, Yogi Adityanath produced the combined model of bulldozer and encounter raj in Uttar Pradesh, now Samrat Chaudhary and Subhendu Adhikari are applying these models in Bihar and West Bengal. But let us remember that UP today is the worst state in terms of reported crimes against women.
Neither mob lynching, nor fake encounter!
Insist on justice, nothing less than that!
-- Dipankar Bhattacharya, GS, CPIML (July 9, 2026)
