Bikru Ambush | 'He Misused Trust Which Led To His Colleagues' Death': Allahabad HC Rejects Third Bail Plea Of Dismissed UP Cop

The Allahabad High Court recently rejected the third bail plea moved by now-dismissed UP Police official Krishna Kumar Sharma, who is facing conspiring charges in connection with the ambush in Bikru village on July 3, 2020, in which Gangster Vikas Dubey gunned down eight policemen. A bench of Justice Saurabh Shyam Shamshery observed that though he has been in jail for the last four years, however, considering the role assigned to him, the court's observation while denying two of his earlier bail pleas, and the fact that there are very serious charges against the applicant, he was not liable to be released on bail. “Being a police officer he has misused the trust which has led to death of his colleagues,” the Court observed. However, the Court has granted him the liberty to file a fresh bail application after 6 months, along with the status of the trial. Accused-applicant K.K. Sharma, then Sub-Inspector, Chaubeypur Police Station, has been booked under sections 147, 148, 149, 302, 307, 504, 506, 353, 332, 333, 396, 412, 120B, 34 IPC, section 7 of Criminal Law Amendment Act, and section ¾ of Explosive Substances Act. Sharma was dismissed from service in 2022 after he was found guilty of leaking information about the police raid for arresting Dubey, a history-sheeter who was killed within days of the incident. Sharma is accused of having a close, friendly relationship with gangster Vikas Dubey. Dubey and his gang were involved in organised criminal activities of all sorts and resided and flourished within the local jurisdiction of the police station where both applicants were posted. Allegedly, under a conspiracy, Sharma leaked information about the police raid (on the night of July 2, 2020) to Dubey and his gang members, thus allowing them to remain prepared for the raid with heavy weapons. Also, it is alleged that Sharma did not render due support to police personnel or inform the police force of Dubey's preparedness to counter the raid effectively. Denying his first bail plea in September 2021, a Bench of Justice Pradeep Kumar Srivastava observed that it is not an unknown phenomenon that there are policemen, maybe very few in numbers, who show their loyalty more to such gangsters than to their department for the reasons best known to them. "Such policemen tarnish the image, name, and fame of police and it is necessary that suspicious police personnel should be taken to task and their conduct should be regularly monitored for which a mechanism should be evolved, and if it exists already, the same should be geared up at different levels," the Court had further added.

Bikru Ambush | 'He Misused Trust Which Led To His Colleagues' Death': Allahabad HC Rejects Third Bail Plea Of Dismissed UP Cop

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