Satyameva Jayate! 3-member inquiry commission gives clean chit to UP Police in Vikas Dubey encounter case

NewsBharati    20-Aug-2021
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Lucknow, August 20: In the major development, a three-member judicial commission, which was investigating the case of the encounter of gangster Vikas Dubey, has given a clean chit to the Uttar Pradesh Police in the case.
 
The commission was headed by retired Supreme Court judge Justice BS Chauhan & retiredAllahabad High Court judge Justice Shashi Kant Agarwal & former UP Director General of Police KL Gupta.
 
 
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UP Parliamentary Affairs Minister Suresh Khanna tabled the panel's report on the floor of the state Assembly on Thursday. Stating that the Commission found no suspicion or doubt about the police version of the events that led to the killing of gangster Vikas Dubey it said that no evidence from the public or media was filed to rebut the police claim in the case.
 
The BS Chauhan-led commission stated that the injuries suffered by the policemen could not have been fabricated or self-inflicted. Moreover, he added that an accident caused “momentary unconsciousness” to some of the police personnel sitting in the vehicle along with the gangster allowing him to escape.
 
 
In the conclusion, the commission said that it did not find any eyewitness accounts that could negate the version of events narrated by the Police that led to Dubey’s encounter. "....evidence relating to the sequence of events which ultimately resulted in the death of accused Vikas Dubey do not raise any kind of suspicion or doubt about the genuineness of the police version of events," reads the conclusion of the report.
 
 
Vikas Dubey case:
 
Vikas Dubey was a gangster and History cheater facing 60 criminal cases. Dubey was killed in an alleged encounter when he was being transferred to UP from a jail in Madhya Pradesh.
 
Last year, Vikas Dubey and his men rained bullets on the police team when they had gone to raid the history-sheeter house. Dubey's men killed eight police personnel including Deputy Superintendent of Police Devendra Mishra. During the incident, Dubey managed to escape from the spot. Following which several Police teams were formed to catch Dubey and his associates.


A week later, Dubey was arrested in Madhya Pradesh and handed over to UP Police. However, when US police were on its way to Kanpur, it met with an accident in which one of the vehicles in the Special Task Force (STF) overturned. The police said that Dubey tried to escape and snatched a weapon from one of the policemen. He then ran to a nearby field and was asked to surrender, which he refused to do, they added. There was an exchange of fire and he was killed, the police said.