Parliamentary Affairs Minister Suresh Khanna tabled the report in the Uttar Pradesh Assembly
Strict action should be taken against officials who had helped the gang procure licensed weapons and ammunition and allowed them to amass it illegally
'On the night of the ambush, Dubey was aware that a police team was coming to Bikru,' a senior officer said.
About the claim that slain gangster Vikas Dubey had acquired property worth crores of rupees, she said it was 'fake news' and that her husband has left the family to fend for themselves.
Dubey was killed in an encounter in the morning of July 10 when a police vehicle carrying him from Ujjain to Kanpur met with an accident and he tried to escape from the spot in Bhauti area, the police had said.
Dubey succumbed to the injuries sustained in a police encounter in the Sachendi area on the outskirts of Kanpur on July 10.
Eight policemen, including DSP Devendra Mishra, were ambushed in Bikru village in Chaubeypur area of Kanpur when they were going to arrest Dubey and fell to bullets fired from rooftops shortly after midnight on July 3.
The arrests were made on charges of criminal conspiracy and helping Vikas Dubey in his nefarious design by providing him cash and cartridges hours before the Bikru village ambush, in which eight police personnel were killed.
'The motive of Vikas Dubey was to flee and attack the cops again. This triggered self-defence leading to the encounter,' Uttar Pradesh Police told the Supreme Court.
In the audio, Shahikant's wife is heard talking to Dubey's sister-in-law immediately after the ambush in which eight police personnel were killed at Kanpur’s Bikru village on June 2.
A bench by Chief Justice of India may consider appointing a committee to inquire into the encounters of Vikas Dubey, his aides as well as the killing of eight Uttar Pradesh policemen by the gangster.
Since fear played -- and still plays -- such a dominant role in contemporary politics, the marriage of crime and politics became the most natural alliance, writes Manoje Nath.
The accused Arvind alias Guddan Trivedi and his driver Sonu Tiwari are wanted in connection with recent killing of eight police personnel in Uttar Pradesh's Kanpur district.
Former Uttar Pradesh DGP, Arvind Kumar Jain, in an exclusive interview tells Outlook why the elimination of gangster Vikas Dubey, responsible for killing eight policemen in Kanpur, was necessary to boost the morale of the police force.
As questions are being asked on the alleged encounter in which gangster Vikas Dubey was shot dead in Uttar Pradesh, here’s a look at some of India’s controversial encounter killings.
'A herd of cows and buffaloes suddenly came in front of the vehicle and the driver swerved the vehicle causing it to overturn,' UP Police said in statement after questions were raised over the events that led to the killing of gangster Vikas Dubey's killing.
When media persons asked Vikas Dubey's wife, Richa, what she thought of the events that led to her husband's death, she agitatedly said, 'Yes...Vikas did wrong and he deserved this fate.'
A panel of three doctors at Lala Lajpat Rai Hospital performed the post-mortem of Vikas Dubey who was killed in a police encounter.
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