Devendra Kumar Mishra’s funeral held in Kanpur.
Lucknow:
Kanpur’s senior police officer Devendra Mishra, who not solely filed the try to homicide case towards arch-criminal Vikas Dubey but in addition led the police workforce to arrest the person, was killed with savagery unparalleled in related incidents in Uttar Pradesh.
Initially, the police stated the person was dragged right into a home of one of many gang members and shot from a degree clean vary.
Postmortem report now says the 54-year-old was shot 5 instances — on his head, chest, abdomen and legs. The bullets handed by way of the physique. There had been additionally deep gashes beneath his waist and on his legs, which medical doctors stated may have been attributable to an axe. It just isn’t clear if he was tortured earlier than he was shot or the accidents occurred after his death.
The 50-member police workforce led by Mr Mishra to catch Vikas Dubey had walked right into a lure on Friday. The policemen had been pressured to desert their automotive and stroll the final stretch after they discovered the highway blocked by an earthmover.
The capturing began as they moved into Kanpur’s Bikru village, round 150 km from state capital Lucknow. Eight policemen died on the spot, six others, who had been injured, are within the hospital.
It now seems that lots of the policemen had been shot with their very own weapons, which had been snatched from them.
Altogether, Vikas Dubey’s gang had snatched ne AK-47, one Insas rifle, a Glock revolver and two 9 mm pistols. Baring one pistol, not one of the weapons have been discovered.
A 26-year-old policeman, Jitendra was shot by an AK 47. Sub Inspector Anup Kumar had been shot seven instances. Babloo Kumar, 23, was shot together with his personal rifle.
The our bodies of the opposite policemen, too, bore a number of bullet wounds.
Prior to the demolition of Vikas Dubey’s home on Saturday, the police had damaged down the partitions to see if the criminals had hidden any weapons there. The police had a tip-off that this gang had “built a bunker at the house, where the weapons have been concealed in the walls,” stated Mohit Agarwal, the chief of Kanpur Range.
“That was why the police broke the walls and a cache of arms and ammunition was found,” he added.
There is nevertheless, no signal of the remainder of the weapons snatched from the police celebration.
Vikas Dubey, needed in additional than 60 instances, was accused of homicide try by an area. Going by the lure that was laid, the police suspected he had advance data of the transfer from throughout the power.
Dayashaker Agnihotri, considered one of his gangmembers arrested right now, has revealed that somebody from the police station had tipped off his boss in regards to the plan, after which he referred to as in round 25 gangmembers and ambushed the police.
The station in-charge of the Chaubepur police station has been suspended and is being questioned by the police. He had initially refused to file a case towards Vikar Dubey and managed to slide off when the operation within the village was about to start.
