Widow of Vikas Dubey associate Amar shifted to juvenile home in Barabanki

Kanpur: After languishing in Kanpur Dehat district jail for more than two months, the minor widow of a slain lieutenant of gangster Vikas Dubey was on Monday shifted to a juvenile home in Barabanki. Earlier, she was booked under stringent IPC sections, including murder and criminal conspiracy, and was recently declared a juvenile by the Juvenile Justice Board.
Her parents had recently claimed in an affidavit before a special court in Kanpur Dehat that their daughter was a juvenile.
The girl was married to Dubey’s aide, Amar, just three days before the Bikru bloodbath. Amar was shot by UP Police in an encounter in Hamirpur, days before Vikas surrendered in Mahakal temple in Ujjain.
On August 12, the girl’s father Shyam Lal Tiwari had submitted an affidavit before the special anti-dacoity court at Mati headquarters in Kanpur Dehat, pleading that his daughter be tried as a juvenile.
He had submitted a copy of the High School certificate and other basic school documents in support of the age of his daughter, which shows her to be a minor as of 2 July, 2020, which is the day of the brutal Bikru carnage in which she is a co-accused.
Her lawyer, Shivakant Dikshit, told media persons that as the Juvenile Justice Board had declared her a juvenile, she has been shifted to the Juvenile Home in Barabanki.
“Her parents have now moved an application in the court pleading authorities to enhance her security and other measures as their daughter faces a threat to her life in jail, besides she was keeping unwell. We are expecting hearing in the court soon in this regard,” Dikshit added.
He said, “The girl’s age was 16 years and 10 months and 12 days on the day of the Bikru incident. Her high school certificate and other documents were enclosed in the affidavit, which show she was born on August 21, 2003. “After hearing the petition, special judge anti-dacoity had sent the file to the Juvenile Justice Board to ascertain her age. The board after going through the facts had on September 1 declared her Juvenile,” he said.
The girl was married against the wishes of her parents on June 29, three days before the Bikru carnage and was widowed just nine days after her wedding. The family had also alleged she was innocent and had nothing to do with the Bikru ambush that left eight policemen dead.
She was thrown behind bars on July 8, the day her husband Amar Dubey was shot by the Special Task Force. Amar was trying to flee to Madhya Pradesh, when he was intercepted by STF and killed. The police had charged her of conspiracy with regard to the Bikru massacre.