Amar Dubey was number one on the list of 15 Vikas Dubey assistants chased by the police.
Hamirpur, Uttar Pradesh:
Amar Dubey, a close associate of wanted criminal Vikas Dubey, who also participated in the ambush last week in which eight police officers were killed, was chased and shot dead by police on Wednesday in Uttar Pradesh.
Amar Dubey was number one on the list of 15 Vikas Dubey assistants chased by the police since the murder of cops in Kanpur during a failed raid.
Sources say Amar Dubey got married last week, a few days before the killings. Vikas Dubey was instrumental in marriage.
Amar Dubey is said to have been responsible for the security of Vikas Dubey and to have traveled with him armed with a rifle. Reports also suggest that he was one of the main planners of the Friday ambush.
He wore a reward of Rs 25,000. On an information, the special working group of Uttar Pradesh found him in a village in the district of Hamirpur. When the teams arrived, they were shot.
Last week, eight police officers were killed when police teams went to the village of Bikru in the Chaubeypur region of Kanpur to arrest Vikas Dubey in an attempted murder case.
Vikas Dubey was reportedly warned by police in Chaubeypur and was waiting with an armed gang for the police teams in the early hours of Friday. When the police entered the village, they were surprised by gunfire from the roofs. Eight died instantly.
Vikas Dubey, the notorious criminal with 60 cases of murder, riot, kidnapping and extortion, fled with other people involved in the dismissal. Dubey, who wears a reward of 2.5 lakh Rs, was spotted Tuesday in a hotel in Faridabad near Delhi.
Earlier, two other Vikas Dubey aides, Prem Prakash Pandey and Atul Dubey, were killed.
Shama, Vikas Dubey’s close relative, neighbor Suresh Verma and homemaker Rekha and her husband Dayashankar Agnihotri, a key member of her gang, were arrested by the police.
The 68 police officers from the Chaubeypur police station were sent back and directed to the reserve’s police lines while they are under investigation for alleged links with Vikas Dubey.
The action followed revelations from a letter apparently written by Deputy Police Superintendent Devendra Mishra, who was among the cops killed in the Kanpur shooting. In the letter written three months ago, Mishra told Anand Deo, then chief police superintendent of Kanpur, that Chaubeypur post officer Vinay Tiwari had watered an FIR lodged against the gangster.
The letter posted on social networks suggests that Vinay Tiwari was close to Vikas Dubey and helped him. But UP police say there is no record of such a letter.
