UP: 21 crucial case documents on Bikru don Vikas Dubey missing

LUCKNOW: Mandated to probe the status of police investigation into 65 criminal cases slapped against slain gangster Vikas Dubey, who orchestrated the Bikru massacre, the three-member judicial commission led by retired Supreme Court judge BS Chauhan noted in its report that police failed to table documents on at least 21 cases, citing missing files.

The commission recommended an inquiry against errant officials for misplacing documents on heinous crimes committed by the don, including attempt to murder, arson and rioting with deadly weapons. Majority of these cases were registered at Kanpur Nagar and Kanpur Dehat. The commission observed that loss of Dubey case files is a serious matter, which entails administrative action against erring public servants after inquiry.
The judicial commission, which was set up in July last year, had directed officials to provide details of cases on Vikas Dubey along with copies of FIRs, chargesheets, list of witnesses along with their statements in 65 cases. But police and administrative authorities told the commission that files of some cases between 1991 and 2017 were untraceable or under search and would be submitted soon. But the files have since not been found.
Of the 21 cases, 11 cases are registered in police stations of Kanpur Dehat and 10 in Kanpur Nagar commissionerate and pertain to imposition of Goonda Act on the gangster in 1999, 2000 and later in 2004.