SIT begins probe, visits Bikru village
KANPUR: The three-member Special Investigation Team (SIT) constituted to probe crucial aspects related to the Kanpur ambush formally started work here on Sunday by visiting Bikru village, where gangster Vikas Dubey and his men killed eight police personnel early on July 3.
SIT members recorded the statements of villagers for nearly an hour and inspected the ambush site before heading to the Shivli police station nearby.
Additional chief secretary Sanjay Bhoosreddy, who heads SIT, said, “We have come here for an investigation. After completing the investigation, we will submit the report to the government.”
Bhoosreddy said as the investigation was going on, he would not like to comment further.
Additional director general of police Hari Ram Sharma and deputy inspector general J Ravinder Goud, who are the other members of SIT, accompanied him.
At the Shivli police station, the team met former Shivli panchayat chairman Lallan Bajpai, village pradhan Amar Singh and Prem Shankar, a peon of Tara Chandra Inter College.
Dubey had allegedly orchestrated a murderous assault on Bajpai and Singh in 2002. He was also accused of murdering a college principal, Siddheshwar Pandey, in 2000. The team gathered documents at the Chaubeypur police station.
The Special Investigation Team also gathered information from district magistrate Brahma Dev Tiwari and senior superintendent of police Dinesh Kumar P.
The Uttar Pradesh government has set a July 31 deadline for SIT to submit its report.
The probe will focus on the background of the incident, action taken in criminal cases against Dubey and his gang members in the past few years, and whether there was any negligence on the part of investigation officers, according to a statement issued by the state government on Saturday.
The SIT will also probe whether there was intelligence failure about the firepower possessed by Dubey’s gang and how the gangster managed to get the arms licences issued in
THE UTTAR PRADESH GOVERNMENT HAS SET A JULY 31 DEADLINE FOR SIT TO SUBMIT ITS REPORT.
name of his relatives and accomplices.
Also, it would look into what steps were taken to get Dubey and his men convicted in court, what action was taken by police personnel posted at Chaubeypur police station and other supervisory police officers in complaints against Dubey and his gang members.
SIT would make a list of all policemen and government servants from other departments who were allegedly associated with Dubey for a long time. Their call records over the period of last one year would be examined.
Vikas Dubey and his men killed eight police personnel during a failed raid at Bikru village in Kanpur early on July 3. Dubey and four of his aides were killed in separate encounters between July 3 and 10.
Dubey was killed in an encounter on Friday after police claimed that he tried to escape after the vehicle carrying him from Ujjain to Kanpur met with an accident.