Lucknow: The Supreme Court on Tuesday refused to entertain a petition which sought a CBI probe into an encounter of criminal Rakesh Pandey who died in Lucknow on 9 August.
The bench led by the Chief Justice of India, SA Bobde, asked the petitioner Vishal Tiwari to approach the High court.
Tiwari had contended that Uttar Pradesh government is taking the law into its hand and he claimed that the encounter of Pandey was planned beforehand. He further said this encounter followed a few days after Vikas Dubey's encounter.
In his plea, the petitioner had sought to set up an inquiry commission in order to investigate the matter and to register an FIR against the policemen involved.
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The most wanted criminal of Uttar Pradesh, Vikas Dubey was killed in an encounter after a police vehicle carrying him from Ujjain to Kanpur met with an accident and he tried to escape from the spot in Bhauti area.
After the accident, Dubey snatched the pistol of an STF personnel and tried to flee but was surrounded by the police team and he was injured in an exchange of fire. He was rushed to the hospital where he was declared dead.
The gangster is the main accused in the encounter that took place in Bikru village in Chaubeypur area of Kanpur on the intervening night of July 2 and 3, in which a group of assailants allegedly opened fire on a police team, which had gone to arrest Dubey. Eight police personnel were killed in the encounter.
