Petition In Supreme Court Yesterday Feared Vikas Dubey Encounter Killing

Vikas Dubey was arrested yesterday at a well-known temple in Ujjain.

New Delhi:

Hours earlier than Uttar Pradesh gangster Vikas Dubey was killed in an encounter whereas he was being taken to Kanpur on Friday morning, a plea was filed within the Supreme Court final night time searching for safety for the gangster. The petitioner had claimed the gangster, who was the primary accused within the killing of eight policemen in Kanpur final week, could also be killed in an encounter.

The petition filed by lawyer Ghanshyam Upadhyay additionally sought a probe by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) – monitored by the highest court docket – into the killing of the 5 of Dubey’s aides during the last week and the demolition of Dubey’s home in Kanpur. 

The petitioner, who has urged the highest court docket to listen to the plea right this moment, additionally sought instructions to the Kanpur Police to register a primary info report (FIR) within the demolition that occurred a day after the Kanpur ambush. 

The infamous gangster, in his 50s, was arrested yesterday morning on the well-known Mahakal Temple in Madhya Pradesh’s Ujjain. Hours earlier than his arrest, two of his accomplices had been shot lifeless by Uttar Pradesh police in separate encounters.

This morning, Vikas Dubey – charged in over 60 circumstances – was being brought back to Kanpur. When the automobile wherein he was being taken – one among three within the police convoy — overturned, he snatched the gun of a policeman and tried to run however was surrounded, mentioned the police.

“The car overturned and policemen and the accused were injured. Then Vikas Dubey grabbed a gun from an injured policeman and ran. The police team caught up and surrounded him and tried to get him to surrender, but he refused and started firing. The police had to fire back in self-defence,” the Kanpur police mentioned in a press release. 

Last week, eight policemen had been ambushed and killed amid indiscriminate firing from rooftops when 50 policemen from three stations went to Bikru village in Chaubeypur space of Uttar Pradesh’s Kanpur to arrest the gangster in an tried homicide case. Dubey escaped with a lot of his males after the bloodbath.