Gangster Vikas Dubey, his fiefdom and crime trajectory of Kanpur Dehat

The district reported 81 cases of rioting but none was communal, sectarian or caste-related. As many as 69 cases of rioting were related to land disputes; 10 were family-related

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Vikas Dubey | Kanpur | Uttar Pradesh

Aditi Phadnis Last Updated at July 12, 2020 17:50 IST

Thanks to the drive by the National Crime Records Bureau to collect district-wise data on crime, India has some idea of the pattern of crime at the level of districts, though the data is available only for cognizable offences — an offence in which a police officer has the authority to make an arrest without a warrant and to start an investigation with or without the permission of a court.

In 2018, Kanpur Dehat — where gangster Vikas Dubey (inset) , killed during a police “encounter” on Friday, a day after his arrest, ruled the roost — was an unremarkable ...

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Gangster Vikas Dubey\, his fiefdom and crime trajectory of Kanpur Dehat

Gangster Vikas Dubey, his fiefdom and crime trajectory of Kanpur Dehat

The district reported 81 cases of rioting but none was communal, sectarian or caste-related. As many as 69 cases of rioting were related to land disputes; 10 were family-related

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