Vikas Dubey Encounter: 3 Member panel probing case gives clean chit to Police

TIL Desk/National/Lucknow/ A three-member commission probing the encounter of gangster Vikas Dubey has given a clean chit to police, stating their version of events about his death were supported by evidence. The commission said that Kanpur ambush in which eight cops were killed occurred because of “poor planning” by the police as it did not assess the situation correctly and there was “total failure” of Kanpur local intelligence.          

Parliamentary Affairs Minister Suresh Khanna tabled the report in the Uttar Pradesh Assembly on Thursday. “The evidence adduced in the (Dubey encounter) 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.        

“Nobody came forward from the public and media to controvert the police version and no evidence is filed in rebuttal. Richa Dubey, wife of Vikas, filed an affidavit calling the incident a fake encounter but she did not appear before the commission,” it said, adding that in such eventuality, no suspicion or doubt arises about the police’s version of the incident.