[Breaking] 'No Right Minded Person Will Think He Is Biased': SC Dismisses Plea To Remove Former UP DGP KL Gupta From Commission Probing Vikas Dubey Encounter [Read Order]

The Supreme Court on Tuesday dismissed two petitions which sought to remove K L Gupta, former Director-General of Police of Uttar Pradesh, from the SC-appointed inquiry commission to probe into the genuineness of the encounter killing of gangster Vikas Dubey.A bench headed by Chief Justice of India, S A Bobde, did not accept the arguments of the petitioners that Gupta was biased and prejudiced. The Supreme Court on Tuesday dismissed two petitions which sought to remove K L Gupta, former Director-General of Police of Uttar Pradesh, from the SC-appointed inquiry commission to probe into the genuineness of the encounter killing of gangster Vikas Dubey. The petitioners - Ghansham Upadhyaya and Anoop Prakash Awasthi- alleged that Gupta had given statements to the press endorsing the police version of the encounter and had said "police version of the encounter should be accepted on 'face value'". When the petitioners argued that the relevant test was not the actual existence of bias, but a reasonable likelihood of bias, the CJI replied "A right-minded person who reads the whole thing will not think that the person who said this is biased" It was on July 22 that the SC constituted the committee and appointed former SC judge Justice B S Chauhan to lead it.