Probe commission gives clean chit to UP Police in Vikas Dubey encounter
LUCKNOW: The three-member inquiry commission probing the alleged encounter of gangster Vikas Dubey and five of his alleged associates has given a clean chit to Uttar Pradesh Police because of lack of evidence, a senior home department official aware of the developments said on Wednesday.
The inquiry commissions, chaired by retired Supreme Court justice BS Chauhan, concluded that the July 2019 police encounter of the gangster outside Kanpur was above board, the official said. The other two members are former Allahabad high court judge Sashi Kant Agrawal and former UP director general of police ( DGP) KL Gupta.
He said the commission noted in its report that no one from the public, media or Dubey’s family came forward to present any proof against the police or to challenge their claim.
One of the members of the commission said that the inquiry report was submitted to Uttar Pradesh’s home department and the Supreme Court on Monday after distilling the facts of the case for around eightnine months since the panel was set-up. This person refused to get into the details of the findings.
The Uttar Pradesh Police had claimed that it shot down notorious gangster Vikas Dubey in an encounter after he tried to escape from police custody during transit following his arrest in Madhya Pradesh’s Ujjain.
Dubey and his gang members had earlier killed eight policemen, including deputy superintendent of police (DSP) Devendra Mishra, in Kanpur’s Bikru village on the intervening night of July 2 and 3, 2020.