SIT probing Dubey-police links visits Bikru village

Kanpur, July 12: A senior Uttar Pradesh official, who is heading the special investigation team probing the local police's alleged connivance with slain gangster Vikas Dubey, on Sunday visited Bikru village where eight policemen were ambushed by his henchmen.

“We have come here for an investigation. After competing the investigation, we will submit the report to the government,” Uttar Pradesh additional chief secretary Sanjay Bhoosreddy, head of the SIT, told reporters.

Mr Bhoosreddy was accompanied by additional DG Hariram Sharma and DIG J. Ravindra Gaud who are part of the SIT. The team which arrived here early Sunday will also probe the role of Dubey's sympathisers and political patronisers, said an official. According to the official, the SIT reached Bikru village near Kanpur where they inspected the site of the ambush. ■

Lucknow, July 12: The Uttar Pradesh government on Sunday set up onemember commission to probe into the gunning down of Vikas Dubey and his accomplices in police encounters and the ambush earlier in which the alleged gangster killed eight police personnel.

UP governor Anandiben Patel appointed retired Allahabad high court judge Shashi Kant Agarwal to conduct the probe under the

Commissions of Inquiry Act, 1952 and submit a report within two months, according a government notification.

Uttar Pradesh police had claimed Friday that Dubey was killed when he tried to flee from police custody after a road accident near Kanpur while he was being brought back from Ujjain, where he was arrested a day earlier.

Five of his accomplice died in other firefights with police following the ambush by his henchmen in Bikru village near Kanpur July 2 night.

The one-man panel be based in Kanpur.

It will also probe the gangster’s relationship” with police and people from various departments, will a government state said.

The commission will also suggest ways to prevent the repetition of this in future, it said.

A government spokesperson said the killing of eight policemen in the ambush on July 2 night by Vikas Dubey and his henchmen and the gangster’s encounter on July 10 are a “subject of public importance”.

“Hence, their probe is essential,” the spokesperson said. He said the panel will also investigate “all encounters in the period from July 2-3 to 10”, an apparent reference to gunning down of five alleged accomplices of Dubey as police tried to track down the alleged gangster.

Earlier, the Congress had demanded a judicial probe by a sitting Supreme Court judge into the entire episode. to bring out the truth and identify those who had granted protection to Dubey.

◗ UP GOVERNOR Anandiben Patel appointed retired Allahabad high court judge Shashi Kant Agarwal to conduct the probe