Reports counsel the automotive that had Vikas Dubey overturned and he tried to flee.
Highlights
- Gangster Vikas Dubey was killed in an encounter after a highway accident
- An hour wanting Kanpur, automotive through which he was being taken overturned
- He snatched the pistol of one of many Special Task Force males, mentioned police
Kanpur:
Gangster Vikas Dubey was killed in an encounter after a highway accident on Friday morning whereas being taken to Kanpur in Uttar Pradesh from Madhya Pradesh — the place he was arrested yesterday – say the police. Vikas Dubey snatched the gun of a policeman and tried to run however was surrounded, the police mentioned, asserting that they’d tried to get him to give up.
Just an hour wanting Kanpur, the automotive through which Vikas Dubey was being taken – certainly one of three within the police convoy — overturned on the rain-slicked freeway and he tried to flee, the police mentioned. He was shot useless, like lots of his accomplices who, in line with the police, had additionally tried to flee from custody.
“The car overturned and policemen and the accused were injured. Then Vikas Dubey grabbed a gun from an injured policeman and ran. The police team caught up and surrounded him and tried to get him to surrender, but he refused and started firing. The police had to fire back in self-defence,” the Kanpur police mentioned in an announcement.
“Vikas Dubey was injured and taken to hospital. He died during treatment,” mentioned the assertion. He had three bullet wounds to the chest and one to his arm.
Vikas Dubey, in his 50s, had over 60 prison circumstances in opposition to him, together with homicide
On the run since he organized the bloodbath of policemen at his village in Kanpur final Friday, Vikas Dubey was arrested dramatically yesterday at the famous Mahakal temple in Ujjain, Madhya Pradesh. He was noticed by temple safety guards when he purchased prasad and entered the temple. When he was confronted by the guards, he lashed out and was taken to the police. “Main Vikas Dubey hoon, Kanpur wala! (I’m Vikas Dubey, the Kanpur man),” he burst out, held by a number of Madhya Pradesh policemen.
The automotive through which Vikas Dubey was being taken overturned on the freeway.
The method of his arrest, at a really public place and much from UP, led to hypothesis that he had determined to show himself in at a time and place of his selecting.
Evading UP policemen on his path for 5 days, Dubey had pushed from Kanpur to Faridabad in Haryana, the place he escaped from a resort simply earlier than the police arrived. He then drove to Kota in Rajasthan and eventually to Madhya Pradesh in a 1,500-km journey.
Senior UP police officer Mohit Agarwal had mentioned: “We had caught many of his associates and a few were killed. So definitely he was trying to save his life and on the run.”
Vikas Dubey was shot useless, like lots of his accomplices.
A petition filed within the Supreme Court final night time had requested for safety for the gangster and a CBI investigation right into a collection of encounter killings.
Five of Dubey’s aides had been killed previously few days.
Hours earlier than Dubey’s arrest, two of his accomplices had been shot useless by Uttar Pradesh police in separate encounters.
One of them, Prabhat, was arrested on Wednesday from the Faridabad resort the place Dubey had been sighted. On the best way to UP, he allegedly snatched a pistol from a policeman making an attempt to repair a flat tyre and tried to run away when he was shot, the police mentioned.
Dubey’s closest aide Aman Dubey was shot dead after he was chased down by the police to a village on Wednesday.
Dubey, in his 50s, had over 60 prison circumstances in opposition to him, together with homicide, kidnapping and extortion. His alleged hyperlinks with the police and politicians helped him keep out of jail for years. Former Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav urged in a tweet that his killing helped the UP government protect secrets that might have come out on the politician-criminal nexus.
On Friday final, a big workforce of policemen who went to Dubey’s Bikru village to arrest him in an tried homicide case was caught abruptly when there was indiscriminate firing from rooftops. Eight policemen have been killed within the ambush arrange after the gangster was tipped off by an area police inspector. Dubey escaped with lots of his males after the bloodbath.
The UP administration tore down Dubey’s home and launched a large hunt for him. Two policemen have been arrested for allegedly serving to him and over 60 native cops shunted out. Dubey’s spouse and son have been present in Lucknow and have been taken for questioning final night.
