Description
For decades, Uttar Pradesh saw gangsters enter prison yet continue to run criminal empires, influence governments, and even contest elections from behind bars. Arresting a mafia don was not enough. His ecosystem had to be dismantled.
Bulldozer Baba tells the story of the Yogi Adityanath government’s approach to breaking that ecosystem — attacking the economic foundations of organised crime, confiscating and demolishing illegally acquired properties, strengthening policing and prosecution, deploying technology, protecting witnesses, and pursuing old cases through to conviction.
Inside the Bulldozer Doctrine Under CM Yogi, crimes committed twenty, thirty, even forty years earlier returned to courtrooms. Men who had accumulated power through fear faced convictions, property seizures, and the collapse of networks built over decades. Through the stories of Mukhtar Ansari, Atiq Ahmed, Vikas Dubey, and other notorious figures, Shantanu Gupta examines what came to be called the “Bulldozer Doctrine.” It is not simply the story of demolitions. It is the story of using law, policing, prosecution, technology, and economic action together to challenge the architecture of organised crime in Uttar Pradesh.
Author : Shantanu Gupta ; Paperback ; Publisher : Garuda ; Pages : 308
