From gang of 21, 12 absconding, 3 arrested, 6 killed
LUCKNOW: Twelve members of gangster Vikas Dubey’s group — all suspected to be involved in the killing of eight policemen on July 3 — are still on the run and raids are underway to apprehend them, Uttar Pradesh Police officials said on Friday. Six people from the gang, including Vikas Dubey, have been killed in separate encounters in the state’s Kanpur, Etawah and Hamirpur.
LUCKNOW: Twelve members of gangster Vikas Dubey’s group — all suspected to be involved in the killing of eight policemen on July 3 — are still on the run and raids are underway to apprehend them, Uttar Pradesh police officials said on Friday.
Six people from the gang, including Vikas Dubey, have been killed in separate encounters in the state’s Kanpur, Etawah and Hamirpur, Prashant Kumar, additional director general of police, law and order, said. He said three of the gang members have been arrested.
In an FIR filed in Chaubeypur near Vikas Dubey’s village — Bikru — the police named 21 people, including the gangster named in about 60 criminal cases, and 15 unidentified people.
ADG Kumar said rewards have been announced for the capture of the absconding members, which laid a trap for a police team that was raiding the village and killed eight personnel on July 3.
Of those still on the run, two people — Gopal Saini and Heeru Dubey — carry a reward of ₹1 lakh each, and the remaining 10 carry a reward of ₹50,000 each.
Multiple teams of the Kanpur district police and UP Special Task Force are carrying out searches to arrest the criminals.
Apart from Dubey, the five others killed in police encounters are Prem Shankar Pandey, Atul Dubey, Amar Dubey, Praveen Dubey and Prabhat Mishra, ADG Kumar said.
Amar Dubey, Vikas Dubey’s personal security guard and a shooter, was killed in a police encounter in Hamirpur on Wednesday. Prabhat Mishra and Praveen Dubey were killed in two separate encounters in Kanpur and Etawah on Thursday.
ADG Kumar said Shyam Bajpai, Jahaan Yadav and Dayashankar Agnihotri — three other gang members who too were allegedly involved in the ambush — have been arrested in separate operations in Kanpur.
In addition to this, seven people — Dayashankar Agnihotri’s wife Rekha; Amar Dubey’s wife Kushi; Vikas Dubey’s neighbours and relatives Kshama, Suresh Verma and Shanti Devi; and two sub-inspectors Vinay Tewari and KK Sharma — have been arrested for being part of the conspiracy.
Vinay Tewari was the station officer of Chaubeypur police station and KK Sharma, too, was posted there. Tewari and Sharma allegedly tipped off Vikas Dubey about the police raid. All 68 policemen at Chaubeypur police station have been sent to police lines with officials probing an alleged nexus between personnel and the gangster.
ED MAY REGISTER CASE
The Enforcement Directorate (ED) might investigate the financial network of Vikas Dubey’s gang . An ED team visited Kanpur on Wednesday to meet Mohit Agarwal, the inspector general (IG) of police, Kanpur range.