Encounter killings

The Supreme Court today reserved its order on a plea seeking to disband the Justice (Retd) BS Chauhan-led enquiry commission in the Vikas Dubey encounter case.

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The list includes names of two former Chief Justices – Justices TS Thakur and RM Lodha – as well as two who recently retired – Justices Deepak Gupta and R. Banumathi.

UP govt agrees to issue a notification with changes in its committee as per SC instructions; SC says it will pass order only after govt notification

The Judicial panel appointed by the Supreme Court last year to investigate the alleged fake encounter of four rape-murder accused in Hyderabad has filed an application before the Supreme Court seeking more time to complete the investigation, which got delayed due to COVID 19 pandemic.

The Supreme Court said today (July 14) that it was thinking of forming a committee as was done in the case of the Hyderabad encounter case last year, to probe the alleged encounter killing of gangster Vikas Dubey and his five associates by Uttar Pradesh Police.

The Lucknow bench of the Allahabad High Court dismissed as infructuous a petition seeking direction for constituting a judicial commission headed by a former/sitting Judge of the court to probe into the police encounter of Vikas Dubey by the UP Police Special Task Force Team on July 10.

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