On Monday Supreme court ordered UP government to expand the committee probing the Vikas Dubey encounter to include former judge.
Supreme court of UP government to include former judge of the court and retired DGP ( Director General of Police).
SC also reminded UP CM Yogi about responsibility of the arrest. And directed UP government to give fair trial to an accused in a court law.
“You must understand that as a State government, you should be capable of arresting, detention and trial of an accused till he is found innocent or guilty”, Chief Justice of India (CJI) Sharad A. Bobde addressed Solicitor General Tushar Mehta, appearing for U.P.
Presently the inquiry panel has a retired Allahabad High court judge.
The court has directed the state to give draft notification with mentioning name’s of former apex court judge and police.
Senior advocate Sanjay Parikh, for NGO People’s Union for Civil Liberties (PUCL), mentioned
“as many as 6,126 police encounters in which 122 persons have killed” .
“There is substance in what Parikh is saying… What is at stake is not one incident [of Dubey] in Uttar Pradesh, what is at stake is the whole system”, the CJI stressed.
The UP Police affidavit said, ”The death of Uttar Pradesh gangster Vikas Dubey, while he was in the custody of the state police, was not a fake encounter.”
