The top court had asked the state government to consider adding a former Supreme Court judge and a retired police officer in the probe committee, saying it has ‘appalled’ that the gangster was out on bail.

“We are appalled at the fact that such a person was released on bail. This is a failure of an institution where he was released on bail and did this. We need a report on such bail orders,” Chief Justice of India S.A. Bobde said, while hearing petitions for a Central Bureau of Investigation or the National Investigation Agency probe into his death and that of the killing of eight police by Vikas Dubey’s gang members, and for the top court to monitor the probe. The top court has sought a report from the UP government.

The reconstituted panel will now include a retired Supreme Court judge and retired police officer, along with the existing retired high court judge, the UP government said.

“We cannot spare a sitting top court judge to become part of inquiry committee,” the top court bench, headed by the Chief Justice, said during today’s hearing.

Chief Justice Bobde also asked the UP government’s lawyer to look into statements made by the Chief Minister and the Deputy Chief Minister. “If they have made certain statements and then something has followed, you should look into this,” the Chief Justice said.

Vikas Dubey was shot dead while trying to escape after a car accident, the UP Police had announced on July 10, a day after his dramatic arrest in Madhya Pradesh. Vikas Dubey snatched the gun of a policeman and opened fire, the police said, asserting that they had tried to catch him alive.

On July 3, eight policemen were killed in a village Kanpur in an ambush set up after Vikas Dubey was tipped off by a local police inspector. Vikas Dubey escaped with many of his men after the massacre. A large team of policemen were on their way to arrest him in an attempted murder case.

The Supreme Court will take up the case next Wednesday after Uttar Pradesh submits the draft notification of the reconstituted probe panel.

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He was killed during an encounter by UP’s Special Task Force (STF) in Hamirpur district, about 200 km from state capital Lucknow. Another aide – Shyamu Bajpai – was arrested in a separate encounter in Kanpur.

Vikas Dubey was spotted at a hotel in Haryana’s Faridabad near Delhi on Tuesday, police said.

On Tuesday afternoon, raids were conducted at the Faridabad hotel and three men were arrested during an encounter. The hotel manager said that a man resembling the wanted gangster had left the hotel before the cops reached. Police later confirmed the man was Vikas Dubey.

Twenty-five teams of the UP police are conducting raids to arrest Dubey, who has been missing since Friday’s massacre. The bounty on him was increased to Rs 2.5 lakh from one lakh on Monday.

Two cities in Haryana – Faridabad and Gurgaon – near Delhi are on a high alert and the Delhi Police has also been alerted amid speculation that the notorious criminal may surrender in the National Capital Region.

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