COURTESY TOI JULY 13
Cop dubbed Dubey’s mole seeks SC cover
Dhananjay.Mahapatra@timesgroup.com
New Delhi:
Starting a new norm of police seeking protection from police, an arrested sub-inspector on Sunday moved the Supreme Court apprehending danger from encounter specialists in UP Police, who killed gangster Vikas Dubey and his five associates within a week of the killing of eight cops in Bikru village on July 3.
Accused of being Dubey’s mole who tipped him off about an impending police raid that led to heavy firing by the gangster and his associates, resulting in the death of the cops, the subinspector of Chaubeypur police station, K K Sharma, and his wife Vinita Sirohi requested the apex court for a CBI probe into the July 3 incident on the ground that the deaths of colleagues would make the probe by UP Police biased.
Maya reaches out to Brahmins
BSP chief Mayawati on Sunday said Brahmins should not have to pay for the misdeeds of Vikas Dubey, saying: “They are terrorised... this needs to be addressed.” P 11
Ex-HC judge to probe Dubey ‘encounter’
The UP government on Sunday instituted an inquiry by a retired HC judge into the July 10 “encounter” in which Vikas Dubey was killed while being brought to Kanpur. P 11
‘Cops’ actions prove that no accused is safe even in custody’
Sharma and his wife also feared for their lives after the encounter killings of Dubey and his five aides. Such is his fear of getting killed in an encounter that Sharma requested the SC that he must not be brought out of jail and that his interrogation should take place inside the prison”. After seeing the incidents of encounters... in the present FIR (July 3 incident), petitioner is of the confirmed opinion and has full apprehension that her husband may be eliminated by adopting illegal and unconstitutional means,” Sirohi said while moving the petition for her husband and herself.
“The incidents of encounters fully prove the fact that UP Police have no faith in courts of law... and are giving final verdict of punishment by adopting illegal and unconstitutional manners,” she said and referred to a pending petition by the NGO People’s Union for Civil Liberties which sought a probe into encounter killings in UP during 2016-18. PUCL had moved an application in the SC on Saturday seeking a courtmonitored probe into the killings of Dubey and his aides.
The sub-inspector and his wife said, “Actions of UP Police and its agencies have proven that no accused is safe even in their custody and such incidents of extra-judicial killings have eroded the confidence of the accused as well as general public from the rule of law