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3 PCS officers to be probed in Bikru case on SIT report

On the report of Special Investigation Team (SIT) probing the Bikru incident, an inquiry has been ordered against three PCS officers posted in the district for not doing scrutiny of the arms licence of the accused properly.
3 PCS officers to be probed in Bikru case on SIT report
Kanpur: On the report of Special Investigation Team (SIT) probing the Bikru incident, an inquiry has been ordered against three PCS officers posted in the district for not doing scrutiny of the arms licence of the accused properly. On the instructions of the government, divisional commissioner Rajshekhar has issued show cause notices to all three and sought report in this regard.
ADM City Vivek Srivastava, who was posted in Kanpur, the then city magistrate Ravi Srivastava and ACM VII and arms department in-charge Abhishek Kumar Singh were accused by the SIT probing the Bikru incident of negligence in work.

The SIT found in the investigation that if arms licences had been verified as per norms, the weapons of gangster Vikas Dubey and other members of his gang would have been confiscated even before the incident like Bikru occurred.
Considering the officers guilty of negligence, the SIT had written a letter to the appointment authorities for action.
The department has ordered a preliminary inquiry against the three officers. Vivek Srivastava. who is posted as the chief revenue officer, Ballia, Abhishek Kumar as ADM finance Firozabad, while Ravi Srivastava has retired.
The divisional Commissioner said, “Show cause notices have been issued to all three in this regard.” To recall, on the night of July 2, 2020, a police team that went to the house of Vikas Dubey in Bikru village of the district for a raid, was attacked by the latter and his aides.

Eight policemen, including the then CO of Bilhaur, Devendra Mishra, were killed by the gangster and his aides in the attack.
Later, the police, in back-to-back encounters, had killed six accused including Vikas Dubey and his five alleged aides. About 50 accused, including Vinay Tiwari and KK Sharma, are in jail.
Thereafter, the government had constituted the SIT led by additional chief secretary Sanjay Bhoosreddy which had additional DG Hari Ram Sharma and DIG Ravinder Goud as its members on July 11, 2020.
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