“Will Do Something Like Telangana”: Supreme Court On Vikas Dubey Case

New Delhi:

The Supreme Court could appoint a panel, to be headed by a retired decide, to probe Kanpur Police’s killing of Uttar Pradesh gangster Vikas Dubey and his aides final week, in addition to his bloodbath of eight cops a couple of days earlier.

Responding to PILs asking for a court-monitored CBI or NIA probe into each incidents, the courtroom gave the UP authorities until Thursday to inform the courtroom “what kind of committee” it needed.

The case shall be taken up subsequent on Monday, July 20.

“We will do something (like) what we did in the Telangana case. Tell us what kind of committee you want,” the Chief Justice of India mentioned, referring to the encounter killing of 4 males accused of the rape and homicide of a 27-year-old girl.

Telangana Police mentioned the 4, who have been in custody, tried to flee by attacked armed cops with sticks and stones earlier than snatching their weapons, leaving them with no choice however to shoot them useless.

Shortly after the highest courtroom constituted a panel headed by retired Supreme Court decide Justice VS Sirpurkar to probe the matter. The panel has but to submit its report due to the coronavirus outbreak.

Meanwhile, Solicitor General Tushar Mehta, showing for the Yogi Adityanath authorities, requested for extra time to formulate the state’s reply.

“Please give me time. We have taken cognisance of the matter (but) too many facts are in the public domain. Let me place our facts from the UP government before the court,” he mentioned Tuesday.

Vikas Dubey, who was the primary accused in a brutal assault that left eight cops useless and 7 others injured, was shot useless Friday as he tried to flee police custody following a automotive accident.

The police mentioned Dubey, who was being transported to Kanpur after his arrest in neighbouring Madhya Pradesh, tried to flee after the automobile he was in met with an accident.

Several questions have emerged over the police’s model of occasions that led to Vikasd Dubey’s demise

In an announcement that had echoes of the Telangana encounter, the cops mentioned Dubey snatched a gun from a cop. Attempts have been made to get him to give up however he fired on the cops, forcing them to retaliate.

However, questions have emerged over the police’s model of occasions that led to Dubey’s demise. Videos and witness accounts have underlined the questions that, up to now, don’t have any solutions from the police.

The UP authorities has already appointed an impartial one-member fee to probe the incident; it’ll encompass a retired decide and should submit a report inside two months.

One of the PILs heard by the Supreme Court at this time had been filed by Ghanshyam Upadhyay, a Mumbai-based lawyer, hours earlier than Vikas Dubey died within the encounter.

The PIL sought a court-monitored probe into the killing of 5 of the gangster’s associates. Presciently, it had additionally sought safety for Dubey, fearing that he is perhaps killed in an encounter.

UP gangster Vikas Dubey confronted 60 felony circumstances, together with 20 circumstances of homicide and try and homicide

The second, filed by Anoop Prakash Awasthi, needs the highest courtroom to direct and oversee a CBI (Central Bureau of Investigation) or NIA (National Investigation Agency) probe into the nexus between cops and criminals that led to the deaths of the eight cops.

Ongoing inquiries into the massacre at Bikru village close to Kanpur have urged that a number of cops have been a part of Dubey’s “deep-rooted” community.

The officer in-charge of the Chaubeypur Police Station, which has jurisdiction over the village, was arrested final week. A sub inspector from the identical station was additionally arrested. In addition, 4 extra cops from the station have been suspended and no less than 30 others are being investigated.

A 3-judge bench of the Supreme Court, consisting of the Chief Justice and Justices R Subhash Reddy and AS Bopanna will hear the petitions.