Punjab’s AAP government has played to the gallery with ‘bulldozer justice’ in the anti-drug activist’s murder case in Mansa. CM Bhagwant Mann emulating UP counterpart’s tough-on-crime playbook suggests desperation. Such ‘justice’ however ‘good’ is cynical politics. It’s bad in law. It can’t whitewash Mann government’s dismal law and order record.
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