The judicial commission that probed all aspects of slain gangster Vikas Dubey's rise and fall, has endorsed the findings of the Special Investigation Team (SIT) which had found that as many as 26 officials of the district administration and revenue department had helped Dubey and his associates in getting arms licences and fair price shop permits. Vikas Dubey, who was killed in an encounter on July 10 2020, had massacred eight policemen in the Bikru village on July 3 when the police team came to arrest him in a murder case.

The Supreme Court had mandated a three-member inquiry commission headed by Justice (retd) B.S. Chauhan to probe into the encounter of Dubey and five of his alleged associates. The panel also probed the circumstances which led to the rise and fall of the gangster. The state government had formed an SIT under the chairmanship of senior IAS officer Sanjay Bhoosreddy just after the encounter of Dubey.