Kanpur/ Etawah:
Two aides of infamous gangster Vikas Dubey, the primary accused within the ambush and homicide of eight policemen final week in Uttar Pradesh’s Kanpur, have been shot useless early Thursday morning in separate encounters in UP after they have been attempting to flee, police mentioned.
Prabhat, one of many two aides, was arrested on Tuesday from Haryana’s Faridabad, about an hour away from Delhi, after Dubey was noticed at a resort within the metropolis. He was being introduced again to Kanpur with one other man arrested together with him when he tried to flee, in line with the police.
“The cops who were with Prabhat were trying to change the police van’s tyre when Prabhat snatched a pistol from them and tried to escape. He shot at the cops and the policemen retaliated. He was injured in the leg and taken to a hospital where he died due to injuries,” senior police officer Prashant Kumar mentioned.
Another aide shot useless this morning – Bauva Dubey alias Praveen – had a bounty of Rs 50,000 on him. The encounter came about in Etawah, about 220 km from state capital Lucknow.
“At around 3 am, a Swift Dzire was looted by four armed men on a Scorpio. They were stopped about an hour later by cops when they tried to escape. The police chased them and an unidentified man suffered multiple injuries in crossfire. He was declared brought dead at the hospital,” senior police officer Akash Tomar mentioned. The man was later recognized as Praveen, Dubey’s aide.
One pistol, a double barrel gun and several other cartridges have been recovered throughout the encounter. Three different males who have been with Ranbir managed to flee.
Last week, eight policemen have been ambushed and killed when 50 policemen from three stations went to Bikru village in Chaubeypur space of Kanpur to arrest needed gangster Vikas Dubey in an tried homicide case.
Dubey – charged in 60 prison instances together with homicide, kidnapping, extortion and rioting- is lacking since Friday’s bloodbath. A large hunt has been launched to arrest him and the bounty on the gangster was doubled from 2.5 lakh to Rs 5 lakh on Wednesday.
On Wednesday, certainly one of his shut aides – Amar Dubey – was chased down and shot useless in Hamirpur district. Amar Dubey was primary on the record of 15 of Vikas Dubey’s aides being hunted by the police for the reason that killing of cops in Kanpur throughout the failed raid.
Another aide – Shyamu Bajpai – was arrested in a separate encounter in Kanpur on Wednesday.