Supreme Court closes Vikas Dubey encounter case, tells UP to act on report

New Delhi, July 22

The Supreme Court on Friday ordered the Uttar Pradesh Government to act on the recommendations of the Justice BS Chauhan Commission that probed the encounter of gangster Vikas Dubey and others in 2020.

A Bench led by Chief justice NV Ramana, which also directed that the commission’s report be put in the public domain and uploaded on its website, closed the hearing on various petitions on the issue.

The three-member commission headed by Justice Chauhan — a retired Supreme Court Judge — had, in its report, concluded that there was no suspicion or doubt about the police version of the killing of Dubey and other members of his gang in encounters after the Bikru ambush in Kanpur in July 2020. Nobody from the public or the media came to contradict the police claim and no evidence was filed in rebuttal, it noted.

Eight policemen, including DSP Devendra Mishra, were killed at Bikru village in Chaubeypur area of Kanpur when they went to arrest Dubey as they were fired upon from rooftops shortly after midnight on July 3, 2020.

Dubey was killed in an encounter on July 10, 2020, when a police vehicle carrying him from Ujjain to Kanpur met with an accident and he tried to flee the spot, the police had said.

The petitioners had sought re-constitution of the Commission to probe the encounters. The top court had on August 19, 2020, dismissed a petition seeking scrapping of the Justice Chauhan Commission.

Make report public

The Bench directed that the Justice BS Chauhan Commission’s report be put in public domain and uploaded on its website