Priyanka calls for inquiry into police encounter killing
LUCKNOW: The opposition parties on Friday slammed the Yogi Adityanath-led Utar Pradesh government over the encounter of dreaded gangster Vikas Dubey, while being brought back to the state from Madhya Pradesh’s Ujjain.
Senior opposition Congress party leader Priyanka Gandhi said the people “protecting” Dubey were still free and called for a judicial probe into the killing.
Former chief minister and Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav took to twiter and wrote, “Actually his car has not overturned, but the government has been saved from turning over the secret.”
His remarks came soon ater Dubey died on Friday morning ater being critically injured in an alleged shootout with the STF officials on Friday morning near Kanpur.
The gangster was shot when he reportedly tried to flee, following a road accident in which the vehicle he was travelling in overturned near Kanpur.
Dubey was taken to the emergency ward of the Hallet Hospital.
Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) Kanpur Dinesh Kumar said that the doctors have confirmed his death.
Rashtriya Lok Dal (RLD) leader Jayant Chaudhary also slammed the BJP government over the “encounter rule” in the state and urged all the judges to resign. “Ater Vikas Dubey’s encounter, all the judges of the country should resign. There is no need of court in BJP’S encounter rule,” Chaudhary said in a series of tweets. “All this drama has been created to save the real culprits of killing eight policemen,” the RLD leader said in another tweet.
Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) leader and Rajya Sabha MP Manoj Kumar Jha also criticised the Utar Pradesh government over the encounter saying the “black truth” of the entire “syndicate” has also been “encountered” along with Dubey.
“If the news of the Vikas Dubey death in the encounter is true, then accept that the black truth of the entire syndicate has also been encountered. The system has saved itself from being naked. How the story is so simple from yesterday’s visuals of Mahakal temple to the story till today morning. Proceed with this as the final truth (sic),” Jha tweeted.
According to reports, as the convoy bringing Dubey from Madhya Pradesh’s Ujjain reached the Bhauti area under the Barra police circle in Kanpur on Friday morning, the vehicle in which Vikas was seated, overturned ater skidding on the road due to heavy rain.