Vikas Dubey encounter UP government to file status report, SC to hear on July 20
The Uttar Pradesh government told the Supreme Court that it would file a status report on the steps taken in connection with the encounter with notorious criminal Vikas Dubey and his associates. The Supreme Court said that he can consider the appointment of a panel headed by a former judge to investigate the matter.
Chief Justice S.A. A three-judge bench headed by Bobde will now hear the matter on July 20. The petition filed in the court demanded the CBI to supervise the investigation of the murder of Dubey and his five associates in the alleged encounter.
Eight policemen, including DSP Devendra Mishra, were ambushed in Bikaru village of Chaubepur area of Kanpur when they were on their way to arrest Dubey. The attackers killed these policemen by firing bullets from the roofs at midnight of 3 July.
Dubey was killed in a police encounter on the morning of 10 July, when a police car carrying him from Ujjain to Kanpur crashed and Dubey tried to escape. Prior to Dubey's encounter, five of his companions were killed in separate encounters.
Advocate Ghanshyam Upadhyay, who had filed a petition before Dubey was killed, sought directions from the Uttar Pradesh government and police for the safety of the gangster. Later, another plea was filed by Anoop Prakash Awasthi, a Delhi-based lawyer, who sought the court's supervision of a probe by the CBI or NIA into the nexus of a police-criminal-politician in the murder of 8 police personnel in Uttar Pradesh.
Upadhyay, Awasthi and another petition related to the case will be heard by a CJI-led bench on Tuesday in the apex court. Apart from these petitions, the police officer has filed a petition in the apex court, seeking his protection, alleging that he had conveyed the intelligence of the police team that had gone to capture Dubey. He has been suspended on this charge and is fearing to be killed in an encounter by the police. The petition filed through his wife Vinita Sirohi stated that her husband Krishna Kumar Sharma could be killed by "illegal and unconstitutional methods".
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