Reward for Vikas Dubey arrest increased to `2.5L
3 more UP cops suspended
Lucknow, July 6: The reward for the arrest of gangster Vikas Dubey involved in the killing of eight police personnel in Uttar Pradesh, has been increased to `2.50 lakh, a senior police official said on Monday.
“The cash reward for the arrest of Vikas Dubey has been increased to `2.50 lakh by UP director general of police H.C. Awasthy,” additional director general law and order Prashant Kumar told PTI.
Inspector General Kanpur Range Mohit Agarwal had on Sunday said that the reward for the arrest of Dubey was increased to `1 lakh.
Meanwhile, the Uttar Pradesh police has suspended three more of their men, suspecting
that they tipped off Vikas Dubey whose gang members killed eight policemen in an ambush at a village near Kanpur last week.
The police on Monday also increased the reward for Dubey arrest to `2.5 lakh, up from the `1 lakh offered earlier.
UP DGP Awasthy said police are conducting raids to track down the gangster, based on information they get.
The Police had earlier suspended Vinay Tiwari, station officer at
Chaubeypur station and were examining the possibility that he informed Dubey that a police team was heading to his Bikru village to arrest him.
The gangster, who has faced about 60 criminal cases over the years, then allegedly set up an ambush for the policemen, killing eight of them in the early hours of Friday.
Kanpur’s Senior Superintendent of Police Dinesh Kumar P said more Chaubeypur policemen have now been suspended.
Three police personnel have been suspended for their suspected role in leakage of information, he said. They are subinspectors Kunwarpal and Krishna Kumar Sharma and constable Rajiv.