Order on plea to disband inquiry panel looking into Vikas Dubey killing

NEW DELHI: A bench headed by Chief Justice S A Bobde will give its verdict today on an application filed by advocate Ghanshyam Upadhyay seeking disbandment of the SC-approved panel headed by retired SC judge B S Chuahan to inquire into the encounter killings of gangster Vikas Dubey and his associates by UP police as well as the incident in Bikru village where the gangster and his aides had killed eight policemen.
Upadhyay has alleged bias against members of the panel and raised doubts on the impartiality of Justice Chauhan saying his relatives were BJP MLAs in UP. He had claimed, "It is discernible that the aforesaid two members (Justice Chauhan and ex-DGP K L Gupta) are in active collusion and connivance with the state administration in hushing up the issue of killing six accused in fake encounters and, that being the case, only conclusion which can be drawn is that if the aforesaid members are allowed to be part of the commission, then justice would completely elude."