Kanpur cops didn’t act against Vikas Dubey on land-grabbing plaints

LUCKNOW: The special investigation team (SIT) probing the rise of gangster Vikas Dubey would especially focus on at least eight instances of land-grabbing three years ago in Kannauj in which there was enough evidence against him to pin him down, but not a single FIR was lodged.
The then inspector general, Kanpur range, had ordered a probe in 2017 by an ASP-rank officer from Kannauj police after he received eight complaints of land-grabbing in the district against Dubey and his aides Amar Dubey, Jai Vajpayee, Arvind alias Guddan Trivedi and Atul Dubey.
For an impartial investigation into the matter, he marked the complaints to be registered at Bajraia and Nazirabad police stations of Kanpur and ordered the probe before formal FIRs could be registered.
In his report, the investigating officer said there was enough evidence against Vikas Dubey and his aides but the gangster was trying to influence the probe and was not letting police to lodge an FIR against him.
Complainants claimed cops misbehaved
Complainants in the case had then alleged that when they asked local cops to take action against Dubey, they misbehaved with them. The SIT constituted by the government will find out why a probe report indicting the don remained unattended.
Talking to TOI, additional director general, (law and order) Prashant Kumar said, “The ambit and mandate of the SIT is so wide that no case related to the gangster will remain untouched.”
“No policeman who shielded Dubey or his aides would be let off. The SIT will also look into the role of officers in other departments,” he said.
The officer who carried out the probe said, “Kanpur police could have at least filed an FIR or informed their senior officers about the case. But they did not take any action.” He said he had no idea what happened to the investigation after he submitted his report to the IG, Kanpur.