New Delhi (ILNS): Today, the Uttar Pradesh Police have registered fresh FIRs against nine people, including slain gangster Vikas Dubey’s brother and wife, for obtaining arms license by using fake documents. FIR has also been registered for obtaining SIM cards on someone else’s ID.

Some days back, the Yogi government had suspended the Uttar Pradesh Deputy Inspector General of Police (DIG) Anant Dev Tiwari over his alleged involvement with the gangster after an audiotape went viral.

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The fugitive Dubey was killed in an alleged encounter on July 10 when a police vehicle carrying him from Ujjain to Kanpur met with an accident and he tried to escape. There were apprehensions over police-criminal-political nexus post his death.

New Delhi:  The Supreme Court today rejected a plea that questioned the appointment of retired Supreme Court judge, Justice B.S. Chauhan, as head of the 3-member commission constituted to probe into the encounter killing of gangster Vikas Dubey.

The bench of Chief Justice S.A. Bobde and Justices A.S. Bopanna and Justice V. Ramasubramanian had reserved its order on August 11.

The plea was filed by Advocate Ghanshyam Upadhyay, who had submitted that since the family members of the retired judge have political connections, the enquiry led by the Justice Chauhan will not be fair and transparent.

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Justice Chauhan’s brother is an MLA in UP and his daughter is married to an MP.

Read the judgment here;

– India Legal Bureau

Dreaded gangster surrenders after days of eluding special police forces

Gangster Vikas Dubey, the dreaded criminal from Kanpur, who had been on the run since shooting down 8 UP policemen, in Bikru village near Kanpur on July 3, was today (July 9) arrested at Mahakal police station in Madhya Pradesh’s Ujjain this morning.

This information was confirmed to the media by the Inspector General (IG) of Police, UP Special Task Force, Amitabh Yash confirmed. This was a ‘surrender. Yash said Dubey himself went to the police station to surrender and got arrested.

Madhya Pradesh minister Narottam Mishra was quoted as saying by news agencies: “It is a big success for the police, Vikas Dubey is a cruel killer. Whole Madhya Pradesh police were on alert. He has been arrested from Ujjain Mahakal temple. We have informed Uttar Pradesh Police.”

This, the place of arrest is slightly in variance with what the police officer said (the police station adjacent and not the temple proper), but that this was made possible through intense negotiations, was clear. It will also go to the credit of UP police that this arrest was made possible.

India Legal Bureau