Vikas was known to the state police as the dreaded don in the state and responsible for several heinous criminal acts but had remained outside the police dragnet. The police hunt for the officers involved closely in protecting him and his crimes for years indicates his dragnet was carefully woven. His becoming underground to escape the police hunt was obvious precaution.

But mystifying fact is his shouting loudly inside the temple and giving away his identity. The runaway criminal would make maximum efforts to hide his identity. But here is the reverse episode of the don identifying himself, his being lone inside the temple and unarmed guards of the temple catching him and keeping him in their custody till the state police team arrived, and the gangster escaping during hand over to the police team and his being killed in the police firing in the most strange manners.

The entire episode raises several questions but basic being whether the killed person is really Vikas Dubey or someone who sacrificed his life to enable the real culprit, Vikas to escape and hide from the police gaze. Such a possibility cannot be ruled out. But on social media an elaborate message has been circulated to explain what Vikas Dubey was trying to achieve and why he wanted to reach a temple. The message claimed that he wanted to perform Zen. The message explains the Japanese word Zen in Chinese means Chan equivalent of word for the Sanskrit term Dhyan. The don originally intended to visit Pashupatinath temple in Kathmandu but because of the political turmoil in the Communist Nepal over actions of the Nepal Prime Minister, he changed his mind and went to Mahakal temple in Ujjain and got killed. Such intimate information or reading of his intimate intensions in the social media appears to be usage to condemn him as in links with China and Nepal.

The state leadership cannot attribute the rise and growth of the criminal on the preceding regimes. So his killing in Ujjain is accepted as the final curtain on the drama that began with brutal killing of eight policemen and their officers. The episode reflects the prevalent law and order situation as well as what the criminals take it for. How can any criminal gang dare to kill eight policemen during the day light and not fear the police hunt with all intensity to follow? It means that the state government’s image is so weak that gangsters dare to take law in their hand. The suspicious circumstance around the killing episode leaves more questions than answers any.