The Uttar Pradesh government emphatically denied before the Supreme Court on Friday that the gunning down of history-sheeter Vikas Dubey on July 10 was a “fake encounter”.
Special Secretary, State Home Department, Anil Kumar Singh, in a 58-page counter-affidavit, said “the incident can never be termed as a fake encounter looking at it in totality”.
Uttar Pradesh objected to the apex court’s suggestion to set up a judicial commission like the one investigating the encounter deaths of the four accused in the Hyderabad veterinarian’s rape and murder case. Unlike the Telangana government, the U.P. government has suo motu instituted a judicial inquiry into Dubey’s death within days.
Mr. Singh assured the court that, “The State has taken all steps to ensure that even a suspicion does not remain on the incident. It [the Uttar Pradesh government] has acted proactively.”
The affidavit said a