Vikas Dubey and policemen travelling within the jeep are believed to have been taken to hospital.
Kanpur:
One of the three police automobiles taking gangster Vikas Dubey to Uttar Pradesh from Madhya Pradesh, the place he was arrested, overturned early this morning on the freeway.
Unconfirmed stories counsel the automotive that overturned had Vikas Dubey in it. More particulars are awaited.
Vikas Dubey, on the run since he organized the bloodbath of eight policemen in Kanpur final Friday, was arrested yesterday at a temple in Ujjain, Madhya Pradesh.
He reportedly drove from Kanpur to Faridabad, by Kota in Rajasthan to Madhya Pradesh – round 1,500 km – with out being checked.
Questions have been raised on the way wherein he was caught and whether or not it was an arrest or the gangster turned himself in at a time and place of his selecting. Senior UP police officer Mohit Agarwal 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.”
The arrest was reported hours after two of Dubey’s accomplices have been shot lifeless by Uttar Pradesh police in separate encounters. One of them was arrested in Wednesday from the Faridabad lodge 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.
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. Dubey escaped after the bloodbath.
The UP administration tore down Dubey’s home and launched a large hunt for him. Over the final week, 5 of Dubey’s accomplices have been killed.
