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Bikru ambush: HC refuses bail to wife of an aid of gangster Vikas dubey
The woman said she was about sixteen years and ten months’ old on the date of the incident and had only been married for a few days to Vikas Dubey’s relative. In her defence, she added that she was not a member of Dubey’s gang.
The Allahabad high court rejected the bail plea of wife of an aid of slain Kanpur gangster Vikas Dubey, who was involved in the killing of eight Uttar Pradesh policemen including a superintendent of police (SP) and three sub-inspectors SI, in Bhikru village in Kanpur dehat on July 3, two years ago.
The high court bench led by justice JJ Munir rejected the woman’s revision petition which argued that she had no role in the ambush and was present at the site of the killing of policemen by chance since she and her husband were that day visiting gangster Vikas Dubey as he was their relative. She also sought bail on the ground that she was declared a juvenile by the concerned Juvenile Board on September 1, 2020.
The court while rejecting the plea observed, “Prima facie, if not at the center stage of this diabolical act, certainly as an important player, the revisionists seem to have actively participated. In the circumstances, permitting the revisionist to walk out free on bail would shake the law-abiding citizens’ faith in the rule of law and the State’s authority. If that were to be done, it would certainly defeat the ends of justice.”
The court added that these remarks should, in no way, be understood or construed as comments on the merits of the case, which is to be judged at the trial.
The woman said she was about sixteen years and ten months’ old on the date of the incident and had only been married for a few days to Vikas Dubey’s relative. In her defence, she added that she was not a member of Dubey’s gang.
However, the state government cited testimonies of cops who survived the deadly ambush late that night to claim that the girl was an active participant throughout the assault, aiding, and egging and instigating Vikas Dubey’s gang not to spare any policeman.
On July 3, 2020, when a police team went to arrest Vikas Dubey from his house in Bikru village of Kanpur Nagar, Vikas and his associates opened indiscriminate fire on the police force, killing eight and injuring six others grievously.
While opposing her bail plea, the state government counsel cited the fact that the juvenile board had also held that she should be put on trial as an adult despite being a minor as she had the “requisite mental and physical capacity to commit the offence, as also the ability to understand the consequences” of committing the heinous crime.
After hearing the concerned parties, the high court observed, “An overall look on the circumstances of the case brings to mind the fact that the occurrence, in which the revisionist was involved, was not of an ordinary kind. Not only the spontaneous elimination of eight policemen in action and six others left injured, is a horrendous crime that shocks the conscience of the society, but also an act that strikes at the roots of the state’s authority in its territory.”
