New Delhi:
Uttar Pradesh gangster Vikas Dubey, who was behind the cold-blooded murder of eight police officers last week, was arrested this morning at a Madhya Pradesh temple after a nearly week-long lawsuit involving police in three states. He was arrested in Ujjain around the same time that two of his collaborators were killed in separate meetings at the UP. His closest collaborator, Aman Dubey, was killed yesterday.
Vikas Dubey was seen buying prayer offerings at the Mahakal temple around 8 a.m., police said. A trader recognized him and reportedly alerted the security guards, they said. When he left the temple, the guards interrogated him.
He first tried to mislead them by producing a false identity card for a much younger man. When he was pushed further, he hit the guards, who dragged him to the police station.
Eight police were killed Friday as part of a large team to arrest Dubey in his village of Chaubeypur in Kanpur.
Dubey – indicted in 60 criminal cases for murder, kidnapping, extortion and riot – was reportedly alerted to the raid by local police and organized an ambush. When the police reached the village, Dubey and his men, armed with AK-47s, fired from the roofs.
The notorious gangster escaped after the massacre. A massive hunt was launched and the bonus on him was increased to Rs 5 lakh.
Here are the updates on the gangster UP Vikas Dubey:
“Well-planned surrender”: family of murdered cop says Vikas Dubey was saved from death
DSP family member Devendra Mishra, one of the eight polimens killed in the Kanpur ambush, questioned the arrest of gangster Vikas Dubey, saying it was a “well-planned surrender “and that the gangster was” saved from death, “PTI reported. The parent apparently alluded to the death of the five alleged accomplices of Dubey during meetings with the police. “This is not an arrest, but he was saved from” death. “It was a well-planned surrender,” Kamalkant Mishra, the brother-in-law of the killed policeman Devender, told reporters. Mishra. “No one can compensate for our loss but if the criminal has been arrested it is a source of satisfaction for us”, he said, adding: “I do not think it is rather the end of the story , This is just the beginning” .
Act against the “political patrons, conspirators” of the gangster Vikas Dubey: Mayawati tells the government
BSP President Mayawati on Thursday urged the Uttar Pradesh government to take tough action not only against gangster Vikas Dubey, who, along with his collaborators, killed eight policemen in an ambush in Kanpur last week, but also against his bosses in government and politics, reported PTI. The people of the UP and the country are waiting for the government to expose all criminal ties and ‘mafiyagirifrom Vikas Dubey, “the fearsome criminal following his arrest after a long struggle by the Madhya Pradesh police,” Mayawati said in a tweet. “The public is also waiting for the government of Uttar Pradesh to guarantee strict punishment as soon as possible to all government and political bosses and conspirators linked to Vikas Dubey for his heinous crimes,” she said in another tweet.
Another Kanpur meeting aide accused Vikas Dubey, Bahua Dubey, who died Thursday during a meeting with police in Ettawah, Uttar Pradesh, ANI reported.
“Today, around 4:30 am, during a meeting with the Etawah police, a person died. From him, a rifle and a pistol were also recovered. When we shared the information with the Kanpur police, they identified him as Bahua Dubey, “said SSP Etawah Akash Tomar.
“He was involved in Kanpur’s meeting with Vikas Dubey and there was a bonus of 50,000 rupees on him,” he added.
“At around 3:00 a.m. on the highway near the Mahewa police station in Bakewar, a Swift Dzire car was looted by four armed attackers on a Scorpion. At around 4:30 a.m., they were intercepted on the road to Kachaura under the civilian lines of the police station by the police. When the police chased them, the car collided with a tree and criminals started shooting the police, “he added.
Bahua Dubey was injured during the encounter and was pronounced dead while being transported to the hospital. However, the other three managed to escape. A pistol, a double barrel pistol and several cartridges were recovered, he added.
Earlier in the day, Prabhat Mishra, also an assistant to the main accused, died after being shot by the police.
Prabhat Mishra injured his leg after being shot by the police and was rushed to hospital before being pronounced dead.
In police custody after a dramatic chase that ended in a temple this morning, Uttar Pradesh gangster Vikas Dubey shouted “Main Vikas Dubey Hello, Kanpur wala! “The notorious criminal, charged in 60 murder cases, made a surprising admission after five days of police flight, driving from UP to Haryana, Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh after Friday’s massacre in which eight police officers were killed.
The police will present Vikas Dubey before the chief magistrate of Ujjain Trupti Pandey for pretrial detention.
Samajwadi (SP) leader Abhishek Mishra on Wednesday denied reports that the wife of wanted gangster Vikas Dubey was a member of the party for life, ANI reported.
“Richa Dubey, the wife of Vikas Dubey, a history scholar, was never a member of our party. She was never an active member of the party. She never contested the election of the SP symbol, “said Mishra.
The SP leader also hijacked “documents” allegedly showing that Sonu alias Richa Dubey had joined the Samajwadi party for life after paying 20,000 rupees in 2015 and that she attended party functions and participated in the spread and the dissemination of party policies.
There is also a “request form” for panchayat polls in Kanpur (rural), which shows that Richa Dubey contested the elections of Zila Panchayat in 2015 on the symbol SP.
Mishra told ANI that the documents were false and could be created by the computer unit of rival political parties.
कानपुर के जघन्य हत्याकांड में यूपी सरकार को जिस मुस्तैदी से काम करना चाहिए था, वह पूरी तरह फेल साबित हुई।
अलर्ट के बावजूद आरोपी का उज्जैन तक पहुंचना, न सिर्फ सुरक्षा के दावों की पोल खोलता है बल्कि मिलीभगत की ओर इशारा करता है … 1/2
– Priyanka Gandhi Vadra (@priyankagandhi) July 9, 2020
I salute and congratulate the Madhya Pradesh police on the arrest of Vikas Dubey. We were also on alert. If he had come here, we would have caught him too. He did not come to Bihar because I said that if he comes here, he will not be able to escape: DGP Bihar Gupteshwar Pandey pic.twitter.com/NhObdJMwrP
– ANI (@ANI) July 9, 2020
UP gangster Vikas Dubey will be brought to the state on remand, police said.
“Dubey will be brought to the state on remand. Our campaign against everyone involved in the Kanpur affair will continue until there is no longer a single member of the Dubey gang,” said ADG, Law and Order Prashant Kumar.
“Tougher sanctions will be imposed on Dubey,” he added.
योगी सरकार विकास दूबे से मिली हुई है सरकार के दम पर इस दुर्दान्त अपराधी का मनोबल इतना बढ़ गया की इसने 8 पुलिसवालों की निर्मम हत्या कर दी जब पूरे देश में योगी की थू-थू होने लगी तो गिरफ़्तारी का नाटक किया के, योगी सरकार के रहते इस दुर्दान्त का कोई कुछ नही बिगाड़ सकता।
– Sanjay Singh AAP (@SanjayAzadSln) July 9, 2020
Madhya Pradesh Interior Minister Narottam Mishra said Vikas Dubey had been arrested but did not surrender. “He entered Madhya Pradesh via Kota Rajasthan in a car with two assistants, Bittu and Suresh. He used a fake ID card with the surname” Paul “,” he said.
Madhya Pradesh Interior Minister Narottam Mishra said Dubey entered the state with two aides; he had a fake ID that declared his last name “Paul”.
ख़बर आ रही है कि ‘कानपुर-काण्ड’ का मुख्य अपराधी पुलिस की हिरासत में है. अगर ये सच है तो सरकार साफ़ करे कि ये आत्मसमर्पण है या गिरफ़्तारी. साथ ही उसके मोबाइल की CDR सार्वजनिक करे जिससे सच्ची मिलीभगत का भंडाफोड़ हो सके.
– Akhilesh Yadav (@yadavakhilesh) July 9, 2020
Two assistants of the notorious gangster Vikas Dubey, the main accused of the ambush and murder of eight police officers last week in Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh, were shot early Thursday morning during separate meetings in the UP as they were trying to escape, police said. A few hours later, Vikas Dubey was arrested in Ujjain, Madhya Pradesh.
Prabhat, one of the two assistants, was arrested on Tuesday in Faridabad, Haryana, about an hour from Delhi, after Dubey was spotted in a city hotel. He was brought back to Kanpur with another man arrested with him while he was trying to escape, police said.
I congratulate the Madhya Pradesh police on the arrest of Vikas Dubey. I am in constant contact with the UP authorities and have also spoken to UP CM Adityanath. For further investigation, he will be handed over to the UP police. The two state police are working in coordination, “said Madhya Pradesh chief minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan, quoted by the ANI news agency.
While being taken away by the police, Uttar Pradesh gangster Vikas Dubey shouted “Main Vikas Dubey hoon, Kanpur wala!” The notorious criminal, who is behind the murder of eight police officers, made a surprising admission after hiding and fleeing police in three states after Friday’s massacre.
The gangster was arrested after being spotted at the Mahakal temple in Ujjain, Madhya Pradesh.
Vikas Dubey was seen buying prayer offerings at the Mahakal temple around 8 a.m., police said. A trader recognized him and reportedly alerted the security guards, they said. When he left the temple, the guards interrogated him.
He first produced a fake identity card for a much younger man. When he was pushed further, he hit the guards, who dragged him to the police station.
“Main Vikas Dubey hoon, Kanpur wala,” he shouted when he was beaten while being taken into the police van.
Uttar Pradesh gangster Vikas Dubey, accused of killing eight police officers last week, was arrested at a Madhya Pradesh temple after a nearly week-long lawsuit involving police in three states. Vikas Dubey was arrested in Ujjain at about the same time as two of his collaborators were killed during separate meetings in the UP. His closest collaborator, Aman Dubey, was killed yesterday.