SUPREME COURT TO HEAR PLEAS

NEW DELHI : The Supreme Court (SC) is scheduled to hear on Tuesday the petitions connected with Vikas Dubey’s encounter, including the one which was filed hours before the UP gangster was gunned down near Kanpur. The petition, which was filed at wee hours on July 11 through e-mail, had sought a direction to ensure that Dubey, who was arrested on July 10 morning in Ujjain, was not killed by the cops. A threejudge bench headed by chief justice SA Bobde is scheduled to hear pleas which have also sought apex court-monitored probe by the CBI into the encounters in which five alleged associates of Dubey were killed.