'Some relief to soul': Families of slain UP policemen respond to Vikas Dubey's encounter

As dreaded gangster Vikas Dubey was killed in an encounter on Friday morning, families of police personnel who were killed in ambush on night of July 2 by accomplices of Vikas Dubey, have reacted to Dubey's encounter. Tirath Pal, far of slain cop Jitendra Pal Singh who was one of eight cops killed in Kanpur ambush, has said that news of Vikas Dubey's death has brought some relief to his soul after suffering loss of his son because of torious gangster.

Whereas Urmila Verma, wife of slain constable Sultan Singh has said she is satisfied with encounter of Vikas Dubey, but she raised a question as to how will people backing Vikas Dubey be exposed, w that he is dead. 

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Vikas Dubey encounter

On Friday morning, police vehicle carrying Vikas Dubey en route Kanpur collided with a divider due to rain and overturned near Dhaunti. After which, police personnel inside vehicle got injured. Sources say when police tried to get Vikas out from car, he snatched a weapon from m and tried to flee from spot.

Police chased him and cornered him while asking him to surrender. Dubey, however, refused and fired on police following which y retaliated in defence and fired three bullets at him. Sources said that gangster died on spot. incident happened around 6.45 am- 7 am, about 10-15 km away from Bara Toll Plaza. Around 6 policemen were re inside vehicle including driver and Vikas Dubey.

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Kanpur Ambush killing eight policemen

Vikas Dubey a history-sheeter facing over 60 criminal charges, was responsible for killing of eight police personnel who were a part of police team that had gone to raid his hideout in Bikru vill but was ambushed by Dubey's accomplices. Deputy Superintendent of Police Devendra Mishra, three sub-inspectors, and 4 constables were killed.

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. 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.  bounty on Vikas Dubey was successively increased, eventually to Rs 5 lakh.

On night of July 2, 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.