Before Dubey’s meeting, five of his alleged associates were killed (File)
New Delhi:
The Supreme Court is expected to hear petitions related to the murder of Vikas Dubey, including one that was tabled hours before the Uttar Pradesh gangster was killed near Kanpur, on Tuesday.
The petition, which was filed on July 11 by email, had asked for a directive to ensure that Dubey, arrested on July 10 in Madhya Pradesh, was not killed by the police.
A bench of three judges led by Chief Justice SA Bobde is expected to hear the pleas which also requested an investigation under supervision of the Supreme Court by the CBI into the meetings in which five Dubey associates were killed.
Eight police officers, including DSP Devendra Mishra, were ambushed in the village of Bikru in the Chaubeypur region of Kanpur as they were about to arrest Dubey and were shot to the sky shortly after midnight on July 3.
Dubey was killed during a meeting on the morning of July 10 when a police vehicle transporting him from Ujjain to Kanpur encountered an accident and he attempted to escape from the area of Bhauti region, said the police.
Four police officers, including an inspector stationed in Nawabganj, were injured in the accident, said IG, Kanpur Channel, Mohit Agarwal.
Police said Dubey, the main accused in the ambush in which police officers were killed, was rushed to the hospital where he was pronounced dead.
Before Dubey’s meeting, five of his alleged associates were killed in separate meetings.
Lawyer Ghanshyam Upadhyay, who had filed the plea a few hours before Dubey’s death during a meeting, had asked the Uttar Pradesh government and police for a directive to protect the life of the gangster.
