Additional Director General of Police (ADGP) CID Vijay Raghav Pant told The Indian Express, “We are carrying on with the work entrusted to us. The exercise involving collection of the material as well as oral evidence is on. The weapons used in the encounter have been taken into custody by the team.”

The CID team led by Assistant Superintendent of Police Vimla Gunjyal has been subdivided into various teams to expedite the investigations into the matter that has been hitting the headlines regularly and has proved to be a big dampener on the image of the Dehradun Police which takes pride in calling itself “Mitr Police”.

With the case being handed over to the CID and later being recommended for a CBI investigation by the state Chief Minister Dr. Ramesh Pokhariyal Nishank, the Dehradun police is now nowhere in the picture in investigating any aspect of the entire episode.

A total of four First Information Reports (FIRs) have been lodged in the entire episode that began on July 3. The first one pertains to the alleged scuffle that the deceased Ranbir Singh and his two friends had with a police Sub Inspector and their fleeing with the latter’s service revolver. The second case again has been registered against Ranbir Singh and his two friends under the Arms Act as they were allegedly in possession of two country made pistols.

The third FIR is regarding the incident of the encounter. The last one is against the 14 police personnel involved in the encounter lodged on a complaint by the deceased’s father RP Singh

Meanwhile, a massive condolence meeting was organized in Dehradun on Wednesday evening in which thousands of people including politicians from various parties and the family members of the deceased participated. The meet ended in a candle march.

In his address at the meeting, Bharatiya Kisan Union (BKU) leader Mahendra Singh Tikait demanded an instant arrest of the police personnel accused of having killed Ranbir Singh in cold blood. Tikait said, "If the arrests do not take place there will be several more Ranbirs who will be killed.”

Several other speakers demanded that besides the police personnel involved in the encounter, action should also be taken against those who tried to protect the accused.