On Friday, #President’sRuleInUP was trending at the top on Twitter. The news about the killing of kidnapped lab technician in Kanpur Sanjit Yadav started the trend and by evening it picked up when the news came about kidnapping of a 6-year grandson of a bidi trader in Gonda. The opposition parties demanded imposition of President’s Rule in the state as recent incidents of crime are a clear reflection on Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath’s inability to control the same.
What has happened in the recent past in UP is testimony of the breakdown in law and order and failure of the police to control crime. The emergence of Vikas Dubey could be the manifestation of criminal-political nexus but the day Dubey had killed 8 policemen in Bikaru village of Kanpur, four persons were killed in Allahabad while a daughter-father duo were killed just a day before the girl's marriage – which went un-noticed.
But what happened in Kanpur speaks volumes about the inaptness of the police. The lab technician, Sanjit Yadav, was kidnapped on June 22 in Kanpur and was killed within a week even after getting Rs 30 lakh as ransom. What is more shameful is that the abductors managed to flee despite the police having laid a net to catch them.
This successful kidnapping probably prompted a group of not so professional criminals to carry out kidnapping of six-year old grandson of a Bidi trader in Gonda. The child was lucky as the police was able to trace the kidnappers and arrested them, with the boy being handed over to his parents.