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Gangster Vikas Dubey shot dead in encounter as he tried to snatch weapon and flee, say cops

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A day after his arrest in Ujjain, Uttar Pradesh gangster Vikas Dubey, wanted for the killing of 8 policemen in Kanpur, was gunned down in an encounter after he reportedly tried to flee when a car in the Special Task Force convoy taking him from Madhya Pradesh's Ujjain to Uttar Pradesh's Shivli overturned in Kanpur.

The dreaded gangster, accused of masterminding a deadly ambush on a police party outside his Bikru village home, was arrested outside Mahakal temple in the pilgrimage city of Ujjain on Thursday after purchasing prasad and an entry ticket to the shrine, ending a six-day manhunt.

As per ANI, the incident occurred after one of the vehicles of the Uttar Pradesh Special Task Force convoy bringing Dubey back from Madhya Pradesh overturned following an accident.

Cops said that the vehicle carrying gangster Vikas Dubey met with an accident. Taking advantage of the mishap, he tried to escape by snatching a weapon from an injured cop.

A combing operation was done and Vikas was asked to surrender, but he opened fire. Some cops were injured. In the retaliatory firing by the cops, who acted in self defence, Dubey was injured.

He was rushed to the hospital but the doctors declared him dead. ‘This was no encounter, all we did was in self defence,’ a cop said.

Timeline of events

  • Media vehicles accompanying the convoy from Jhansi were reportedly stopped before the last toll

  • At around 6:40 am the convoy carrying Vikas Dubey crosses the Kanpur Dehat border

  • Vehicle carrying Dubey overturns at around 7:30 am near the Sachendi Pass

  • Dubey tries to flee and suffers bullet injuries in the cross-firing

  • Dubey taken to Hallet Hospital where doctors pronounce him dead

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The doctors declared Dubey dead at the hospital.

Opposition alleges nexus between Dubey and politicians

Meanwhile, the Congress and others have cast doubts on the manner in which the gangster was killed and claimed that this was a ‘fake encounter’ to ensure that the ‘truth does not come out’.

The Congress leader Randeep Singh Surjewala said there was no way Dubey would have tried to flee since he had surrendered to the police in the first place.

Congress’s new Rajya Sabha member Digvijaya Singh said that he had always feared this would happen, asVikas Dubey was linked to many cops and politicians.

Former Uttar Pradesh CM Akhilesh Yadav has alleged that by killing Dubey, the cops have actually saved the UP government.

Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi, reacting to Vikas Dubey's death, said: ‘The criminal is dead, but what about those who aided the criminal?’

Former UP CM and BSP supremo Mayawati demanded a Supreme Court-monitored ‘neutral’ probe into the encounter.

Supreme Court lawyer Prashant Bhushan claimed to have predicted the encounter and urged the top court to take cognisance of ‘this obvious crime’.

The Shiv Sena too reacted in a cryptic manner, hinting that with the killing of Dubey, no secrets will tumble out.

J&K leader Omar Abdullah, reacting to the death of Gangster Vikas Dubey, said: ‘Dead men tell no tales’, hinting at the allegations of a nexus between Dubey and powerful politicians/police officials.

The Media said police stopped them near Kanpur early in the morning just before the encounter.

Dubey, wanted in connection with the Kanpur ambush in which eight policemen were killed, was arrested on Thursday after a week-long hunt.

Eight policemen, including a deputy superintendent of police, were ambushed in Bikru village in the Chaubeypur area of Kanpur, where they had gone to arrest Dubey and fell to bullets fired from rooftops last Friday.

His closest aide, Aman Dubey, was killed BY Uttar Pradesh Special Task Force (STF) yesterday. Aman, who was carrying a reward of Rs 25,000, was killed in an encounter in Maudaha village in Hamirpur district.

He was the third member of Dubey's gang to be killed in an encounter with the police.

Carrying a reward of Rs 5 lakh for information leading to his arrest, the gangster had been on the run since last Friday night when a police party, which had gone to arrest him from his house in Bikru village in the Chaubeypur area of Kanpur, was ambushed.

The group was caught in a hail of gunfire from rooftops, which left eight policemen, including a deputy superintendent, dead.

Police say he has been a prime accused in some 60 criminal cases in his lifetime, including murders. He was accused of killing a BJP MLA in a police station 20 years ago but was acquitted for lack of evidence.

With inputs from PTI, News18, ANI.