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Yogi Adityanath government orders SIT into cop killer Vikas Dubey encounter

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Kanpur: The government of Uttar Pradesh has ordered that a Special Investigation Team (SIT) will conduct investigation into the death of cop killer Vikas Dubey.

The cop killer Vikas Dubey was shot dead by the Uttar Pradesh (UP) Police while trying to escape from police custody during a road accident on Friday morning. 

Dubey was arrested in Madhya Pradesh and was on route to Kanpur in UP. He was arrested for killing 8 policeman. 

Police officials had told GoaChronicle.com that the car in which Vikas Dubey was being taken overturned on the highway due to the rains and Dubey tried to escape. Some policemen and Dubey were injured. He was shot will trying to escape because he had grabbed a gun from an injured police officer and ran. The police officer chased after him and asked him to surrender but Dubey started firing at the police.

The National Human Rights Commission has been petitioned to investigate into the encounter of the cop killer Dubey.

The father of  Vikas Dubey stated that he will not attend the cremation of his son and that the police action on his son is justified.

The bed-ridden father told certain sections of the media, “Vikas had done a heinous crime and he should meet such fate.

Blaming Vikas for the misery of his family, Ram Kumar Dubey stated, “He was never good to me nor he obeyed me. Due to him my house got demolished. I am facing all the miseries due to his criminal act and his death was the right thing to be done,” he said.

He also praised CM Yogi Adityanath saying his act was justified.

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