Satyendra Dubey murder accused escapes from court
June 23rd, 2008 - 6:02 pm ICT by IANS
Patna, June 23 (IANS) Uday Kumar, prime accused in the murder of whistle blower Satyendra Dubey, fled from the Patna civil court Monday, giving the slip to a police team escorting him. “Kumar was handcuffed when he was brought to the lower court from the high security Beur jail where he was lodged, but he managed to escape,” a police official said.
Kumar, in his early 20s, is one of the three accused named in the charge sheet filed by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) in the murder of Dubey, an engineer who worked on the Golden Quadrilateral highway construction project in Gaya district of Bihar.
According to the CBI, it was a case of murder for robbery.
A manhunt was launched to nab the accused. Police officials suspect involvement of some of the policemen escorting him.
This is the third time an accused in the Dubey murder case has managed to escape from court.
Dubey, a 31-year-old graduate of the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) working with the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) and posted with the then prime minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee’s pet project, was murdered Nov 27, 2003.
The incident came after he wrote to the Prime Minister’s Office detailing corrupt practices rampant in the project.
In his letter, he spoke of a nexus among corrupt officials, politicians and contractors in the project.
- Three convicted for whistle blower engineer's murder - Mar 22, 2010
- Court to pronounce sentence in Satyendra Dubey murder case - Mar 27, 2010
- Three convicted in Satyendra Dubey's murder case - Mar 22, 2010
- The whistleblowers protection bill - a primer - Aug 09, 2010
- Bihar legislator murder: Court grants bail to editor - Apr 28, 2011
- Bihar legislator's murder: Graver charges against teacher - Aug 09, 2011
- Escaped accused in Tiku murder case caught (Lead) - Apr 11, 2012
- Bihar legislator's murder: Charges framed against teacher - Jun 10, 2011
- Nitish demands high-level probe into World Bank allegations - Apr 03, 2012
- Law to protect whistleblowers soon - Jul 29, 2010
- DGSCL files contempt petition against NHAI - Mar 27, 2012
- Full faith in Anna's movement, say whistle-blowers' families, friends - Mar 25, 2012
- Three get life term for former JNU student leader's murder - Mar 23, 2012
- CBI to adopt Bihar law to seize homes of corrupt - Jan 28, 2012
- Bihar court seeks arrest of 11 Nepali Maoist leaders - Sep 15, 2011
Tags: bihari vajpayee, cbi, central bureau of investigation, civil court, corrupt officials, corrupt practices, golden quadrilateral, highway construction project, indian institute of technology, manhunt, murder case, national highways authority, nhai, patna, pet project, police official, police officials, police team, prime minister atal bihari, whistle blower