SC closes pleas on Vikas Dubey encounter case, asks UP to behave on inquiry panel’s suggestions

By PTI

NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Friday closed the listening to on pleas looking for aid together with the re-constitution of a fee to inquire into the encounter of gangster Vikas Dubey and others and directed the Uttar Pradesh authorities to behave upon the suggestions of the panel.

A bench comprising Chief justice N V Ramana and Justices Krishan Murari and Hima Kohli additionally directed that the report of the three-member inquiry panel headed by Justice (retd) B S Chauhan of the apex courtroom be put within the public area and uploaded on its web site.

The Justice Chauhan panel, in its report, had stated there isn’t any suspicion or doubt in regards to the police model of the killing of gangster Dubey and different members of his gang in encounters after the Bikru ambush in Kanpur in July, 2020 as no person from the general public or the media got here to contradict the police declare and no proof was filed in rebuttal.

One of the petitioners, lawyer Ghanshyam Upadhyay, had sought re-constitution of the inquiry fee to inquire into the encounter of the gangster and others.

On August 19, 2020, the highest courtroom dismissed a plea looking for the scrapping of the judicial fee.

Eight policemen, together with DSP Devendra Mishra, had been ambushed in Bikru village in Chaubeypur space of Kanpur once they had been going to arrest Dubey and fell to bullets fired from rooftops shortly after midnight on July 3, 2020.

Dubey was killed in an encounter within the morning of July 10, 2020 when a police automobile carrying him from Ujjain to Kanpur met with an accident and he tried to flee from the spot in Bhauti space, the police had stated.

NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Friday closed the listening to on pleas looking for aid together with the re-constitution of a fee to inquire into the encounter of gangster Vikas Dubey and others and directed the Uttar Pradesh authorities to behave upon the suggestions of the panel.

A bench comprising Chief justice N V Ramana and Justices Krishan Murari and Hima Kohli additionally directed that the report of the three-member inquiry panel headed by Justice (retd) B S Chauhan of the apex courtroom be put within the public area and uploaded on its web site.

The Justice Chauhan panel, in its report, had stated there isn’t any suspicion or doubt in regards to the police model of the killing of gangster Dubey and different members of his gang in encounters after the Bikru ambush in Kanpur in July, 2020 as no person from the general public or the media got here to contradict the police declare and no proof was filed in rebuttal.

One of the petitioners, lawyer Ghanshyam Upadhyay, had sought re-constitution of the inquiry fee to inquire into the encounter of the gangster and others.

On August 19, 2020, the highest courtroom dismissed a plea looking for the scrapping of the judicial fee.

Eight policemen, together with DSP Devendra Mishra, had been ambushed in Bikru village in Chaubeypur space of Kanpur once they had been going to arrest Dubey and fell to bullets fired from rooftops shortly after midnight on July 3, 2020.

Dubey was killed in an encounter within the morning of July 10, 2020 when a police automobile carrying him from Ujjain to Kanpur met with an accident and he tried to flee from the spot in Bhauti space, the police had stated.