Gangster Vikas Dubey, who was arrested in connection with the murder of eight policemen in Kanpur, was killed in an encounter with the police on Friday morning, several reports said.This came after one of the vehicles of the Uttar Pradesh Police escorting Dubey to Uttar Pradesh from Madhya Pradesh, overturned on a highway early in the morning, ANI reported. He then tried to escape, the police claimed.
Dubey, who was arrested in Ujjain on Thursday, was handed over to a Special Task Force(STF) team of the Uttar Pradesh Police in the evening. “He was handed over to the UP police, who took him to their state by road,” an unidentified police official told The Hindu.
He was wanted in connection with the murder of eight policemen in Kanpur. A deputy superintendent of police, three sub inspectors and four constables were shot dead while trying to arrest Dubey, who has 60 criminal cases against him, in Bikru village, Kanpur, early on July 3. Four others were critically injured. Several of Dubey’s aides have either been arrested or killed in encounters over the past week.
The gangster escaped after the encounter on July 3, following which there were reports of him being seen in Faridabad. The Uttar Pradesh Police had placed a bounty of Rs 5 lakh on him. Dubey was finally caught on the premises of the Mahakaleshwar temple where he was overpowered by guards of a private security agency, Indore collector Ashish Singh told The Indian Express. He was taken to the police station, where his identity was established
