KANPUR: A year after gangster Vikas Dubey and his aides gunned down eight policemen in Bikru village of Kanpur on the night of July 2, 2020, his wife Richa Dubey on Friday sought permission from Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath to commit euthanasia along with her family claiming harassment by government agencies. Dubey was killed in an encounter in the morning of July 10.
While talking to reporters in Lucknow, she claimed that her family was being harassed continuously and now they do not wish to live any more. “We request the CM to accept our request and give us permission for euthanasia,” said Richa.
“None is paying heed to our grievances. We are running short of money and now we are even unable to deposit our children’s school fee. I have to run my house by selling jewellery,” she said.
Richa further said that not only this, the death certificate of her husband Vikas Dubey, who was killed in the police encounter, has not been made even after a year.
“Due to his father’s name wrongly being mentioned in the post-mortem slip, the error also appeared in the funeral slip. Because of which, the municipal corporation people have refused to make the death certificate of my husband and now we are facing a lot of hardships and unable to claim the insurance money,” she said.
Richa said, “I finally demand chief minister Yogi ji that he should give us permission for euthanasia.”
She said that the chief minister belongs to the entire state but none is paying heed to our grievances. “I have full sympathy with the policemen who were killed by Vikas on July 2 & 3 night. I never said anything ill about those families, but someone should listen to us too,” she said and added, “If my husband Vikas did wrong, he was punished for that, now why are we being harassed.”
Eight policemen, including DSP Devendra Mishra, were ambushed in Bikru village in Chaubeypur area of Kanpur when they were going to arrest Dubey and fell to bullets fired from rooftops shortly after midnight on July 2 & 3, 2020.
Dubey was killed in an encounter in the morning of July 10 when a police vehicle carrying him from Ujjain to Kanpur met with an accident and he tried to escape from the spot in Bhauti area in Sachendi, the police had said.
Prior to Dubey’s encounter, five of his alleged associates were killed in separate encounters, while 45 including two cops and four women were arrested and sent to jail.
