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Tribune News Service
New Delhi, July 22
Former Supreme Court Judge BS Chauhan will head a three-member panel that will inquire into the killing of eight policemen and the subsequent death of gangster Vikas Dubey and five of his associates in alleged police encounters.
According to a draft notification — submitted by the Uttar Pradesh Government and approved by the Supreme Court on Wednesday — the other two members of the inquiry commission are former Allahabad High Court Judge Shashi Kant Agarwal and former UP DGP KL Gupta.
A Bench headed by Chief Justice of India SA Bobde asked the inquiry commission to start the work within a week and submit the report to it and the state government in two months.
The Bench made it clear that the Special Investigation Team (SIT) already constituted by the state government would be free to inquire into any of the related incidents, which are the subject matters of this case.
Asking the UP Government to immediately notify the inquiry commission, it directed the Centre to provide secretarial assistance to the panel, which will also get the assistance of the National Investigation Agency (NIA) or any other Central agency.
The top court said it was not in favour of "tying the hands" of the commission with specific terms of reference for it.
The order came on a batch of petitions, including those filed by People's Union for Civil Liberties (PUCL), advocate Ghanshyam Upadhyay and suspended Police Inspector KK Sharma, who is accused of giving a tip-off to the gangster, seeking a court-monitored SIT probe into the alleged encounter killings.
Amid speculations over killing of Dubey in a police encounter on July 10, the UP Police have asserted that it was a genuine encounter.
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