A close aide of gangster Vikas Dubey was killed in an encounter with the Uttar Pradesh Police in Hamirpur district on Wednesday morning, t...
A close aide of gangster Vikas Dubey was killed in an encounter with the Uttar Pradesh Police in Hamirpur district on Wednesday morning, the Hindustan Times reported.
“The aide, Amar Dubey, was a co-accused in the Kanpur incident and was killed on Wednesday morning,” Uttar Pradesh Additional Director General of Police, Law and Order, Prashant Kumar, told the newspaper. He added that Amar Dubey was shot by the state’s Special Task Force in coordination with the local police of Hamirpur. A cash reward of Rs 25,000 had been set on his arrest.
A deputy superintendent of police, three sub inspectors and four constables were shot dead while trying to arrest Vikas Dubey, who has 60 criminal cases against him. The encounter happened in Bikru village in Kanpur on the intervening night of July 2 and July 3. Four others were critically injured.
Amar Dubey’s death came a day after the police arrested three more people, including a close relative of Vikas Dubey in connection with the case. So far, four people have been arrested.
Those held on Tuesday are Dubey’s relative Shama, his neighbour Suresh Verma, and maid Rekha. Rekha’s husband, Daya Shankar Agnihotri, was arrested in an encounter early on July 7. There was a reward of Rs 25,000 for Agnihotri’s arrest....
