Forensic experts recreate encounter scene

KANPUR : Experts of forensic science laboratory (FSL) visited all the places connected with the encounters of gangster Vikas Dubey and his close aide Prabhat Mishra for the reconstruction of events.

The team headed by senior analyst AK Srivastava began the reconstruction on Saturday and it lasted till evening.

The special task force (STF) team, led by its Kanpur unit chief Tej Bahadur Singh, was also present there. Singh and his team members demonstrated how the criminal ran away after the vehicle carrying him overturned on a slippery road due to rain in Sachendi and the way he was pursued.

With weapons drawn, the team members were taken to the exact locations where they had taken positions after spotting Vikas Dubey in Sachendi and Prabhat Mishra in Bhauti, Panki.

Singh showed the FSL experts the way he fired at Vikas Dubey and how fell on the ground. Vikas Dubey was gunned down in Sachendi on July 10 morning while he was being brought from Ujjain where Madhya Pradesh police had arrested him from Mahakaal temple a day before.

While Prabhat Mishra, one of 22 named accused in Kanpur ambush case, was arrested from Faridabad with two 9mm pistols looted from the policemen and 44 live rounds. He had also made a bid to flee in Kanpur after looting a pistol from a constable and was killed in the exchange of fire with STF.

Srivastava, who is a ballistics expert in charge at FSL, told reporters that the encounters scene was being re-created scientifically to cross examine the details mentioned in two FIRs that the STF filed following the two encounters and the evidence available.

“Our local units have already done the ground work and every aspect will be analysed in a scientific way ,” he said.

On Friday, the team visited Kashi Ram Nivada village, where the police had neutralised two fleeing aides Prem Prakash Pandey and Atul Dubey hours after the ambush, for the reconstruction of the encounter scene.

Meanwhile, SSP Kanpur Dinesh Kumar P said the Kanpur police personnel were also part of the reconstruction and explained their roles to the team.

PTI ■ STF and forensic teams recreate the events leading to the encounter of gangster Vikas Dubey, as part of their ongoing investigation of the case, in Kanpur district on Saturday.