NEW DELHI: Starting a new norm of police seeking protection from police, an arrested sub-inspector on Sunday moved the Supreme Court apprehending danger from encounter specialists in UP Police, who killed gangster Vikas Dubey and five of his associates within a week of the killing of eight policemen in Bikru village on July 3.
Accused of being Dubey’s mole who tipped him off about an impending police raid that led to heavy firing by the gangster and his associates, resulting in the death of the cops, the sub-inspector of Chaubeypur police station, K K Sharma, and his wife Vinita Sirohi requested the SC for a CBI probe into the July 3 incident on the ground that the deaths of colleagues would make the probe by UP Police biased.
Sharma and his wife also feared for their lives after the encounter killings of Dubey and his five associates. Such is his fear of getting killed in an encounter that Sharma requested the SC that he must