Kanpur shootout: Prime accused Vikas Dubey still on the run, UP Police arrests his aide, probes ‘insider’ role

Police outdoors the home in Bakru village, Kanpur, the place the eight personnel had been killed. (Photo: Vishal Srivastav)
Two days after eight policemen, together with a Deputy Superintendent of Police, had been killed throughout a raid to arrest prison Vikas Dubey close to Kanpur metropolis, the Uttar Pradesh Police has arrested a member of the Dubey gang. Daya Shankar Agnihotri (42) was held after a short encounter at Kalyanpur space on Sunday early morning. He suffered a bullet harm on his left leg and was later admitted to the hospital the place docs declared his situation as steady. A rustic-made pistol was additionally recovered from him.

The Kanpur shootout had unfolded late on Thursday when the police workforce visited Bikaru village in Chaubeypur police station space to arrest Dubey, a history-sheeter who faces about 60 prison circumstances together with homicide and try to homicide. At his residence, the assailants gheraoed the policemen and began firing, Additional Superintendent of Police, Rural, Brijesh Srivastava, stated.
Anoop Kumar Singh (L), Devendra Kumar Mishra and Mahesh Chandra Yadav (R), three of the eight policemen killed within the encounter.
On getting info, an extra police workforce was rushed to the spot to rescue the cops. The injured policemen had been taken to the hospital the place docs declared eight of them lifeless. The assailants managed to flee from the spot. Hours later, the Kanpur police claimed to have gunned down two criminals after a workforce reached Bikaru village for combing operation.

Here’s what has occurred within the case thus far

The Uttar Pradesh authorities Sunday elevated the reward on prime accused Dubey’s head from Rs 50,000 to Rs 1 lakh. A reward of Rs 25,000 was additionally introduced for all of the 20 individuals who’ve been named within the FIR together with the principle accused within the case. Dubey (53), who hails from Bikaru village, was earlier accused within the murders of BJP chief Santosh Shukla (54) and retired faculty principal Siddheshwar Pandey (65) at Shivli police station space of Kanpur Dehat. While he was acquitted within the Shukla homicide case, he was awarded life imprisonment within the Pandey homicide case and is now out on bail.

Arrests and detentions in case

While Dubey’s aide Daya Shankar Agnihotri was arrested on Sunday, the Kanpur police additionally took into custody a sub-divisional officer (SDO) and one other worker of an influence sub-station from the place electrical energy provide was interrupted throughout the raid on the intervening evening of Thursday-Friday.

Police additionally questioned the person chargeable for disconnecting the facility provide, a senior police official stated, including that the person confessed to having snapped the connection on directions of a caller who claimed that he was calling from the close by Chaubeypur police station in Kanpur district.

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According to sources, the cellphone quantity from which the road employee was contacted belongs to the Chaubeypur police station. However, police haven’t given any info on who ordered the facility provide interruption throughout the raid.

Inspector General, Kanpur Range, Mohit Agarwal stated, “Daya Shankar was named in the FIR and police had declared a reward of Rs 25,000 on his head. He is a close associate of Vikas Dubey and had also fired on the police party.”
State Congress chief Ajay Kumar Lallu pays tribute to slain cops in Lucknow. (Express picture)
Shankar used to maneuver round with Dubey, police stated. His household, together with his spouse Rekha and two sons, keep at Dubey’s home, they added. Police are additionally attempting to verify if Shankar has any prison file. “We have not found any case against him so far,” an officer stated.

Acting on a tip off, the police on Sunday morning tried to nab Shankar in Kalyanpur space of the town. At round 4.30 am, the cops noticed Shankar on a motorbike and signaled him to cease. Shankar opened fireplace and tried to flee however the police retaliated. Shankar bought injured within the gun battle, police stated.

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In a video which was being circulated on social media, Shankar was purportedly heard saying that Dubey was tipped in regards to the raid final week from the police station itself. Shankar can be heard saying that Dubey was locked inside his home on the time of the encounter and didn’t see something.

Assistant Commissioner of Police, Krishna Nagar, Deepak Singh stated Dubey’s mom and sister-in-law had been additionally picked up from his brother’s home for questioning and later launched. Police seized two Ambassador vehicles and a motorbike because the household reportedly couldn’t produce paperwork relating to them.

UP Police probes ‘insider role’

A day after the incident, the station officer (SO) of Chaubeypur Police Station police station was suspended pending an inquiry into hyperlinks with Dubey. Officers suspected that Dubey was tipped off in regards to the raid early Friday morning, serving to him escape at the same time as his gang members fought the police workforce. Sources stated the Special Task Force (STF) probing the shootout is questioning SO Vinay Tiwari. DGP Hitesh Chandra Awasthy confirmed {that a} probe was on into Tiwari’s “role in the case”.

Admitting that they’re probing if Dubey was tipped off in regards to the raid, Kanpur Range IG Mohit Agarwal had stated Dubey’s males had been well-prepared for the police workforce “and the informant could be from the police itself”. “If that is the case, the police personnel who leaked the information would be sent to jail and dismissed,” the IG stated.
Debris lie on the bottom following the demolition of the residence of prison Vikay Dubey, after an encounter in Bikaru village the place eight police personnel misplaced their lives, in Kanpur, Saturday. (PTI Photo)
A senior police officer stated they had been additionally probing if solely SO Tiwari had hyperlinks with Dubey, for private features, or extra personnel from the police station had been concerned. “Using call details we will find out how frequently the SO was talking to Dubey,” the officer stated.

What has additionally introduced Tiwari’s function beneath a cloud is his failure to alert the police on what they may face throughout the early Friday morning raid. “The Station Officer has been posted in the area long enough (since January 31) to know what the situation in the village was like and if Dubey could be dangerous. When the force was going for a raid past midnight, why didn’t he warn them?” the senior officer stated.

Vikas Dubey’s home razed

On Saturday, Dubey’s home in Bikru village was demolished. While a police workforce was current on the spot and stated locals had accused Dubey of usurping their land to construct the home, it denied any hand within the demolition later.

A JCB was used to demolish the boundary wall in addition to a big portion of Dubey’s home, unfold over 10,000 sq ft, in Bikru, quickly after a police workforce reached the village. Two SUVs parked on the premises had been additionally broken. Post-demolition, solely Dubey’s father, who wants help transferring round, and his home assist and her household had been in the home, which had CCTV cameras throughout.
Kanpur: A earthmover car is used to take away mangled stays of a automobile throughout the demolition of the residence of prison Vikay Dubey, after an encounter in Bikaru village the place eight police personnel misplaced their lives, in Kanpur, Saturday. (PTI Photo)
Asked in regards to the demolition, IG Agarwal instructed reporters, “Yesterday, when I visited the village, locals claimed that he (Dubey) had captured their land using threats to build the house. The house was a centre of crime and criminals used to regularly visit it. People were in anguish.”

Later, Agarwal instructed The Indian Express, “Locals complained about him issuing threats but I have no information that Vikas’s house has been demolished. Police have no role in it.” No different senior police or administration official was prepared to talk on the matter, and it was not clear beneath what authorized course of the home was razed. ADG, Kanpur Zone, Jai Narain Singh and ADG, Law and Order, Prashant Kumar didn’t reply to queries on the matter.Sub-Divisional Magistrate, Bilhor, P N Rai stated he had no info relating to the demolition.

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