NEW DELHI: The Uttar Pradesh authorities has instructed the Supreme Courtroom that “no fault” has been discovered on the a part of the police in an ongoing probe into the killing of dreaded gangster and former Lok Sabha member Atiq Ahmad and his brother Ashraf in Prayagraj on April 15. In a standing report filed within the apex courtroom, the state of Uttar Pradesh has mentioned it has left no stone unturned to make sure a good and neutral investigation into the incident and different instances, together with the killing of gangster Vikas Dubey and numerous police encounters since 2017, raised by the petitioner.
Ahmad (60) and Ashraf have been shot useless at point-blank vary by three males posing as journalists whereas police personnel have been escorting them to a medical faculty for examination on April 15. All the capturing was captured dwell on nationwide tv. In its report, the state has given particulars of the standing of instances talked about within the plea filed by advocate Vishal Tiwari, who sought an impartial probe into the killing of Ahmad and Ashraf, and about compliance with numerous previous suggestions of the courtroom and numerous commissions.
The report mentioned that within the case associated to killing of Ahmad and Ashraf, the police has already filed a cost sheet towards three accused and the matter is pending earlier than a trial courtroom. Giving particulars of the probe, the standing report mentioned “investigation is partially ongoing to gather proof on another factors”.
On particulars about some encounters, together with that of gangster Vikas Dubey in July 2020, the state has mentioned these incidents have been completely investigated in accordance with the rules and instructions issued by the apex courtroom in its verdicts. The standing report mentioned that “every of the seven incidents (together with the homicide of Ahmad and Ashraf) highlighted by the petitioner in his pleadings, have been completely investigated by the state in accordance with the instructions/pointers issued by this courtroom in numerous selections, and the place the investigations are full, no fault has been discovered on the a part of the police”.
The report was filed earlier than the highest courtroom which is seized of two separate petitions – one filed by Tiwari and the opposite by Aisha Noori, sister of gangster- politician Ahmad, looking for a path for a complete probe into the killing of her brothers. It mentioned Tiwari has largely “re-agitated” points which have already been determined and closed by the apex courtroom in earlier proceedings.
“A perusal of the current writ petition demonstrates that the petitioner (Tiwari) purports to be involved with deaths of criminals in alleged police encounters in UP and to that finish, mentions the deaths of dreaded gangster Vikas Dubey and a few of his gang members in police encounters within the state of UP,” it mentioned.
The report mentioned the petitioner has additionally particularly raised grievances towards the report of Justice BS Chauhan Fee. Former apex courtroom decide Chauhan headed the fee that probed the encounter killing of Vikas Dubey in 2020. Dubey and his males had ambushed and killed eight policemen at his native Bikru village in Kanpur district in July 2020.
He was arrested in Ujjain in Madhya Pradesh and was being introduced again to Uttar Pradesh police’s custody when he allegedly tried to flee and was shot useless. Doubts have been raised concerning the genuineness of the police encounter. The Justice Chauhan Fee had concluded that the police model of the deaths of Dubey and his associates in retaliatory firing incidents within the days following his encounter killing couldn’t be doubted.
The standing report mentioned other than the Justice BS Chauhan Fee’s report discovering no fault with the actions of the State, “even the felony inquiries, magisterial inquiries, Human Rights Fee, haven’t discovered fault with the state”. “On the outset, it’s reiterated that Atiq Ahmad… was a infamous and dreaded gangster and chief of registered gang IS 227, who had been concerned in additional than 100 felony instances together with instances of homicide, dacoity, kidnapping, extortion, forgery, vandalism of public property…,” it mentioned.
It mentioned there may be common monitoring of police self-defence actions during which accused individuals have died. “In all of the police encounter incidents which have taken place since 2017, particulars associated to the killed criminals and the outcomes of the investigation/enquiry are collected and scrutinised each month on the police headquarters degree,” the report mentioned. It mentioned the state repeatedly screens all police motion and takes speedy remedial or corrective steps, if crucial.
