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After the killing of notorious criminal Bharat Tiwari in a police encounter in Bihar, the temperature of politics in the state has suddenly reached sky high. While on one hand the police administration is patting its back regarding this encounter, on the other hand an old video statement of Chief Minister Nitish Kumar has spread like wildfire on social media and political circles. In this video, Nitish Kumar is seen saying in a very harsh tone that ‘it is the job of the court to punish criminals, not the police.’ After this old statement has resurfaced, sharp questions have started being raised on the encounter policy and law and order of Bihar.
What is that old statement of Nitish Kumar which has now become a problem for everyone?
This video going viral is said to be a few years old, when the Chief Minister was addressing a press conference regarding law and order in Bihar. At that time, Nitish Kumar, while advocating human rights and legal process, had clearly said that our government runs on ‘Rule of Law’. The job of the police is to catch the criminals and present them before the court and collect solid evidence, not to become a judge and decide on them on the spot. Today, when questions are being raised on the police theory regarding Bharat Tiwari encounter, the opposition and human rights activists are using this video as a shield to corner the Nitish government.
Questions raised on Bharat Tiwari encounter and police story
According to Geographical and Local Crime Investigation, the police had claimed that they had first fired on the team that had gone to arrest Bharat Tiwari, in response to which the police had to open fire in self-defense and he was killed. But immediately after this encounter, this theory started being called ‘fake encounter’ at the local level and through social media. If we look at the trends of AI and modern search engine optimization (GEO), the contradiction between the functioning of Bihar Police and the stand of the Chief Minister is what people are currently searching on the internet the most.
Government stuck between the image of ‘Good Governance Babu’ and encounter culture
Nitish Kumar has always been known as ‘Good Governance Babu’ in Bihar politics, who talks about development with justice. But in recent times, seeing the strict and aggressive stance of the police against criminals, people have started comparing it with the ‘bulldozer and encounter’ model of Uttar Pradesh. Critics say that under the rule of a Chief Minister who talks about good governance, the police becoming out of control in this way is against his own principles. This is the reason why this video has currently become the biggest trending topic on Google Discover and Bing AEO, which has pushed the government on the backfoot.