Bikru panel to record versions of kin of slain cops, criminals

Kanpur:The judicial commission looking into the Bikru incident is all set to record the statements of the family members of the eight policemen, who lost their lives in the ambush by gangster Vikas Dubey and his henchmen on July 2-3 night.

Besides, statements of the kin of the six accused killed in separate encounters with the police after the ambush will also be recorded by the panel probing the different aspects with regard to the Bikru case.

Sources at the SSP office said the commission, which had been mandated to probe into the various incidents that took place between intervening nights of July 2-3 and July 10, including encounters between criminals and police at various spots, had issued notices to the family members of eight martyred policemen including Dy SP Devendra Mishra, Station House Officer Shivrajpur Mahesh Yadav, Mandhana police outpost in-charge Anup Kumar, sub-inspector Nebu Lal, constable Jitendra Pal, constable Sultan Singh, constable Bablu Kumar and constable Rahul, besides the kin of the six accused — Vikas Dubey, Prem Prakash, Amar Dubey, Prabhat Mishra, Praveen Shukla alias Bauwan and Atul Dubey — asking them to present themselves and get their statement recorded.

The commission will submit its final report within two months, said sources further.

Eight policemen, were killed in Bikru village on July 2 & 3 night. Dubey was killed on the morning of July 10 when he allegedly tried to escape the custody of Special Task Force (STF) following an accident involving the vehicle in which he was being brought to Kanpur from Ujjain, Madhya Pradesh.

The gangster and four of his aides were killed in separate encounters between July 3 and 10.