Vikas Dubey’s aide held; search on for informers in police

Police in Uttar Pradesh arrested an aide of legal Vikas Dubey and intensified seek for suspected informers within the power who may have tipped him off a few raid that ultimately led to the killing of eight personnel by his gang, officers mentioned on Sunday.

Daya Shankar Agnihotri, suspected to be a part of the gang that laid a lure for the police crew raiding Kanpur Dehat’s Bikru village and attacked them on Thursday night time, was arrested after a gunfight in Kalyanpur space close to Kanpur metropolis.

Agnihotri, who has three legal instances together with two instances of tried homicide in opposition to him, suffered a bullet wound in his proper leg. He carried a reward of Rs 25,000, and was allegedly Dubey’s home assist.

Agnihotri mentioned in a video assertion {that a} caller from a police station knowledgeable the 48-year-old Dubey, who faces 60 legal instances, concerning the raid. HT has seen the video.

Officials suspect it may very well be the police station in Chaubeypur, about 14km from Bikru. It is the place the place an try to homicide case was registered in opposition to Dubey by a villager on Wednesday. The crew that went to raid Dubey’s village previous Thursday midnight left from Chaubeypur.

Agnihotri mentioned a minimum of 25 individuals have been ready with Dubey for the police crew, which walked straight into their lure and was ambushed in a 15-minute onslaught, in keeping with the official.

Dubey’s gang fired at them indiscriminately, killing a deputy superintendent, three sub-inspectors and 4 constables in an ambush that the police later mentioned was a “well-planned conspiracy”.

Hours later, safety personnel launched a large seek for the criminals who escaped in the dead of night, and gunned down two suspected gang members about 3km from the village.

In a primary info report (FIR) filed on Friday night time, the police named a complete of 22 individuals, together with Dubey and Agnihotri, and 10 unidentified individuals.

INSIDER LINK?

On Saturday, Chaubeypur station officer (SO) Vinay Tiwari was questioned for 9 hours over his function within the raid. He was later suspended and shifted to Lucknow. Officials didn’t specify the character of allegations in opposition to him.

Officials imagine that Dubey, an influential gangster whose legal information date again to 1993, has supporters within the police power and that they helped him and his gang get pleasure from a free run regardless of instances of homicide, tried homicide and abduction in opposition to them.

Mohit Agarwal, inspector common of police, Kanpur vary, mentioned a minimum of three policemen have been suspected to be in contact with Dubey and an investigation was underway. “Services of police personnel in league with him will be terminated and they will face criminal trial,” he mentioned.

DUBEY’S WHEREABOUTS

The police are but to hint Dubey, who has been lacking for the reason that ambush. Director common of police (DGP) Hitesh Chandra Awasthy has sounded an alert in all 75 districts of Uttar Pradesh. On Saturday night time, a reward of Rs 1 lakh was introduced for his arrest. Fifty groups and over 3,000 police personnel throughout the state have been deployed for the mission.

Police officers related to the investigation, who didn’t wish to be named, mentioned an deserted SUV parked on the roadside in Auraiya, 60km from Bikru, was recovered on Sunday. Bloodstains have been discovered on the automotive window.

“There are multiple shortcuts and interior roads from Auraiya that lead to the Madhya Pradesh border,” a senior police official in Kanpur mentioned. There is a chance that Dubey moved additional to different states after getting into Madhya Pradesh, he added.

DGP Awasthi mentioned in Lucknow a number of inputs have been being obtained that hinted Dubey entered Madhya Pradesh or Nepal. But nothing substantial has emerged, he mentioned.

He confirmed that police recovered an deserted SUV in Auraiya registered within the identify of 1 Amit Dubey, an in depth aide of the gangster. Local authorities have been attempting to confirm if Dubey and his aides have been travelling within the car and left it on the roadside.

ARMS FOUND

A day after the police demolished the palatial home of Dubey in Bikru village, two kilograms of explosives, six country-made pistols, 25 reside rounds and sharpnels in a bunker there, in keeping with officers. Police mentioned Dubey constructed a bunker inside his home for stocking objects in case of a siege. Police pulled down the home following inputs that criminals had hidden firearms on the premises.