The Judicial Committee formulated by the Supreme Court to probe
The Judicial Committee formulated by the Supreme Court to probe into the encounter of the gangster Vikas Dubey has given a clean chit to Uttar Pradesh Police, affirming the police version of the encounter.
The Committee was headed by Dr Justice B S Chauhan as a Chairman, Retired Allahabad High Court Judge Justice Shashi Kant Agarwal and former UP Director General of Police K L Gupta.
The Committee tabled the report before the Uttar Pradesh State Assembly. “The evidence adduced in the case supports police’s version of the incident. The injuries suffered by policemen could not be self-inflicted or fabricated. Dr RS Mishra, who was on the panel of doctors, conducted the post-mortem and clarified that the injuries found on his person (Dubey) could be caused as per the version of police,” the report said.
In the report, the committee stated that it had found sufficient material on the record that Vikas Dubey and his gang had been patronized by the police, revenue, and administrative officials.
The report stated “In view of services and other illegal gains, the police and revenue officers had patronized him and his gang. If any person lodged any complaint against Vikas Dubey or his associates, the complainant was always humiliated by the police. Even if the higher authorities were directed to lodge the complaint, the local police dictated the terms,”
Further, the report mentioned that there had been no serious opposition by the state authorities or government advocates, also most of the witnesses turned hostile during the trial to which Vikas Dubey and his associates got bail orders from the courts easily.
The committee observed that
“There was a total failure of an intelligence unit in Kanpur in collecting the information about the criminal activities and possession of sophisticated weapons (legal and illegal) by Vikas Dubey and his gang. No proper caution was taken in preparation for conducting the raid, as 38/40 police personnel reached Village Bikru and none of them was wearing bulletproof jackets.” further adding “The gruesome incident occurred because of the poor planning by the police as it did not assess the situation correctly. In fact, it did never expect that Vikas Dubey would retaliate or would be ready to retaliate with sophisticated weapons and his associates would take the positions on better locations, i.e. on the roofs of the houses. They were unaware of the fact that some police officials of PS Chaubeypur had already informed Vikas Dubey about the impending raid,”
Therefore the committee has recommended taking actions against those public servants and officials who allegedly colluded with Vikas Dubey and thereby caused the loss of records of cases relating to Vikas Dubey.
