Bikru Massacre: Six Cops Reverted To Minimum Pay | Kanpur News – Times of India

Kanpur: Six more policemen, who had allegedly aided Vikas Dubey, the main accused in the Bikru massacre case, have been punished under Section 14 (1). Of them, four are inspectors and two constables.
All of them will now get the minimum pay-scale under Section 14(1). Earlier, Vinay Tiwari, the then police station in-charge of Chaubepur and KK Sharma, the beat in-charge of Bikru, were dismissed under this section.
On the night of July 2, 2020, a police team, which went to the house of Vikas Dubey in Bikru village of the district to nab him, was attacked by Dubey and his aides. Eight policemen, including the then CO of Bilhaur Devendra Mishra, were killed by Dubey and his men. Later, the police, in back-to-back encounters, had killed six accused, including Vikas Dubey and his five aides.
More than 50 accused, including station in-charge of Chaubepur Vinay Tiwari and beat incharge KK Sharma are in jail. It was revealed in the investigation that there were a good number of policemen who were involved in aiding Dubey and his aides. The eight policemen were found guilty in the investigation. Tiwari and Sharma were sacked after their names surfaced in the investigation.
Additional commissioner of police, headquarters, Anand Kulkarni was investigating the involvement of the remaining six accused policemen. He had completed his investigation and submitted the report to the government. On the basis of the report, SI Azhar Ishrat, SI Kunwar Pal Singh, SI Vishwanath Mishra, SI Avnish Kumar Singh, constable Abhishek Kumar and Rajiv Kumar have been punished with minimum pay scale.
According to the additional CP, the minimum pay-scale means that all increments or promotions that have been received would turn null and void.
The concerned will have to do the job again on the first pay scale, he said and added, “This is considered to be a stern action in the police department. Only two other punishments are more severe than this one,” he added.