The police party escorting gangster Vikas Dubey from Ujjain in Madhya Pradesh to Kanpur had to “fire back in self-defence” as he tried to escape and was killed, the Uttar Pradesh Government has said in an affidavit filed in the Supreme Court.
The UP Government has constituted a 3-member SIT, headed by UP additional chief secretary Sanjay Bhoosreddy on July 11, to look into the crimes committed by the dreaded gangster and the alleged collusion between Dubey, police and politicians, the affidavit said.
Dubey was killed in the encounter on July 10.
“The only option available to the escort party, under the circumstances was to fire back in self-defence,”Uttar Pradesh Director General of Police Hitesh Chandra Awasthy, in the affidavit filed on behalf of the state, on a plea seeking a court-monitored probe by the CBI or the NIA into the encounter killing.
The top police officer denied that Dubey had surrendered at Ujjain and said that the accused who was on the run was identified at the Mahakaal Temple by the Samiti authorities as well as the policemen at the temple premises.
The DGP also dealt with the question as to why Dubey was not handcuffed and said, “There were 15 police personnel and 3 vehicles to escort the accused directly to the court at Kanpur. He had to be produced at Kanpur within 24 hours before court”