Dehradun, Dec. 14 -- Garhwal Post Bureau

Dehradun, 13 Dec: The final session on the opening day of the Crime Literature Festival of India was a very interesting discussion themed 'The Enforcer: An IPS Officer's War on Crime in India's Badlands' between former DGP of UP, Prashant Kumar, former DGP of Uttarakhand, Ashok Kumar, crime writer and journalist Anirudhya Mitra, and it was moderated by writer and poet Prachi Kandwal. The discussion mainly centred around UP, which was once deeply afflicted by powerful mafia in cahoots with the politicians of that era, and how in the past eight years it has transformed into a state where not the people but the mafia have begun to fear the system. Prashant Kumar observed that this transformation has ...