SIT probing into Vikas Dubey’s criminal antecedents solicits info from people

Lucknow: A SIT set up to enquire into the Kanpur ambush in which eight policemen were killed by Vikas Dubey and his henchmen, has sought information from the people on the gangster’s criminal antecedents, including his alleged connivance with various authorities.
The three-member Special Investigation Team, headed by Uttar Pradesh Additional Chief Secretary Sanjay R Bhoosreddy, on Friday issued a mobile number besides an e-mail id and postal addresses for the people, including their representatives, to contact the SIT to apprise it of whatever they may know about a nine-point probe agenda of the enquiry team.
Maintaining that it has to submit its probe report to the office of Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath by July 31, the probe panel, also comprising Additional Director General of Police Hariram Sharma and DIG J Ravindra Goud, said people can contact it between July 20 and 24 in the afternoon.
“The enquiry will be conducted at the office of ACS Bhoosreddy. Those who want to provide evidence, documentary or oral, can meet him personally between Jul 20 and Jul 24 in the afternoon,” an official statement issued here said.
Those interested in providing details or evidence can also give the same on phone and email or through a letter, it said.
The team is probing the sequence of events leading to the Kanpur ambush and the role of Dubey’s sympathisers and political patrons and had visited Kanpur on Sunday, said an official. (PTI)