Complainant against Dubey missing

KANPUR The man, whose FIR against slain gangster Vikas Dubey prompted the police to conduct a raid at Bikru village early on July 3, is missing, according to his family members and the police. The raid led to an ambush in which Dubey and his men killed eight cops. Rahul Tiwari is also a key witness to the case related to events that led to the ambush, police said.

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KANPUR : The man, whose FIR against gangster Vikas Dubey prompted the police to conduct a raid at Bikru village early on July 3, is missing, according to his family members and the police.

The raid led to an ambush in which Dubey and his men killed eight police personnel, including deputy superintendent of police Devendra Mishra.

Rahul Tiwari, apart from being a complainant, is a key witness to the case related to events that led to the ambush, the police officials here said.

Kanpur’s senior superintendent of police Dinesh Kumar P said he also faced a grave threat to his life. A team led by deputy SP (LIU) Sookshm Prakash is searching for him. His mother Suman Devi said Rahul Tiwari last spoke to her on July 2 night.

“He sounded scared over the phone; then he disappeared with his wife, children and his sisterin-law. I haven’t heard from him since then,” she said.

According to the police investigation, Rahul Tiwari, who lives in Jadepur Nivada village adjoining Bikru, wanted to dispose of land belonging to his in-laws at Monica Nivada village, which also close by.

His sisters-in-law (wife’s sisters) opposed the proposed property sale. One of the sisters-inlaw, who lives in Bikru, sought Vikas Dubey’s intervention, to stop Rahul Tiwari.

Rahul was threatened and beaten up publicly by Dubey for putting forth his side on July 1, according to the police investigation. The next day he gave a written complaint to Vinay Tiwari, the then station officer of Chaubeypur.

Instead of lodging the case, Vinay Tiwari went to Vikas Dubey at Bikru village on July 2 noon with Rahul Tiwari. Police investigation found that Vinay Tiwari, who allegedly had close links with Vikas Dubey, had taken the complainant for reconciliation.

Rahul Tiwari was again beaten publicly by Vikas Dubey and Vinay Tiwari too was manhandled for trying to calm down the gangster. After this incident, Rahul’s FIR was lodged on the intervention of Deputy superintendent of Police (dy SP) Devendra Mishra, who was the Bilhaur circle officer, on July 2 evening.

A few hours later, Mishra assembled a team comprising 25 policemen, including three police station officers, for a raid on Bikru where the gangster and his men ambushed the police team and killed eight of them. Five policemen, a homeguard and a civilian were injured in indiscriminate firing.