Vikas Dubey Encounter: Three-Member SC Committee Gives Clean Chit To UP Police Of Any Wrongdoing

The notorious gangster Vikas Dubey, who was on the run after killing eight policemen in Uttar Pradesh's Kanpur on July 3, was shot dead in an encounter by STF on July 10.

File Pic: Vikas Dubey

New Delhi: Almost a year after gangster Vikas Dubey and five others were gunned down in a series of alleged encounters with the Uttar Pradesh Police, a three-member judicial commission appointed by the Supreme Court to probe the encounter, has given a clean chit to Uttar Pradesh government of any wrongdoing.

The Bikru ambush was probed by a three-member team headed by retired Supreme Court judge B S Chauhan. State Parliamentary Affairs Minister Suresh Khanna tabled the report in the House.

In their report, the panel recommended an inquiry against the "erring public servants" maintaining there was enough evidence that Dubey and his gang were patronised by local police, revenue and administrative officials, reported The Indian Express.

Eight policemen, including a DSP, were gunned down by henchmen of slain gangster Vikas Dubey in July last year.

The notorious gangster Vikas Dubey, who was on the run after killing eight policemen in Uttar Pradesh's Kanpur on July 3, was arrested on July 9 at the Mahakal temple. Just a day after his arrest at the Ujjain temple, the history-sheeter Vikas Dubey was shot dead in an encounter by STF on July 10 in Kanpur when a police vehicle carrying him from Ujjain to Kanpur met with an accident and he tried to escap. 

After his encounter killing, several allegations are being made on Uttar Pradesh's government and police that he was eliminated because he had become a threat to the system. However, the police insist that he was killed in self-defense after he tried to escape police custody.