Uttar Pradesh STF team along with Vikas Dubey reaches Kanpur, car overturns midway

In a development in Kanpur encounter, Uttar Pradesh Special Task Force (STF) team along with torious criminal Vikas Dubey has reached Kanpur on Friday morning. However, one of cars of police teams that were a part of convoy carrying Vikas Dubey has been overturned midway.

history-sheeter having over 60 cases against him was arrested on Thursday morning in Ujjain's Mahakal temple by Madhya Pradesh Police which n handed him over to Uttar Pradesh STF. As per sources, when he was produced before a UP Court via video conference, police stated in court that Dubey was t cooperating with investigation. While he reportedly accepted what happened on intervening night of July 2, he denied killing any policeman. Moreover, Dubey informed court that he was scared that he and his family would be killed in an encounter. When he was asked about how he mand to reach Ujjain, gangster did t offer a satisfactory response, sources observed.

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Kanpur Encounter

Republic had earlier uncovered from Vikas Dubey's aide that torious gangster was already fed information about police raid five hours in advance. Dubey had instructed his henchmen to kill all policemen who were part of raid. He had instructed his aides to keep weapons ready. As a result, his gang members were already waiting for police to arrive, leading to ambush. Daya Shankar Agnihotri, an accomplice of Dubey who was arrested on Sunday, had claimed that Dubey had received an alert. Police surveillance had found that a few cops were in contact with Vikas Dubey and SO Vinay Tiwari is said to be one of m. Four policemen have been suspended since n. 

On night of July 3, police team went to raid residence of Vikas Dubey, however, a JCB machine was placed on road to block police vehicle which points out that criminal and his men already knew of police' action. When policemen got down from vehicle after roadblock due to JCB machine, Vikas Dubey's henchmen who had already taken a position on rooftop started firing on policemen ultimately killing eight of m and injuring seven.

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