Rahul Gandhi breaks silence on Vikas Dubey encounter; mulls 'how many answers...'

After Vikas Dubey encounter, Congress has targeted Uttar Pradesh Government raising suspicion over nature of encounter. latest among Congress leaders was former Congress President Rahul Gandhi who took to Twitter to voice out his opinion on early morning encounter of gangster. 

"Silence is better than many answers, don't kw how many questions have been saved," Rahul Gandhi tweeted.

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Following encounter, Congress leader Digvijaya Singh has seemingly raised suspicion that Vikas Dubey came to Ujjain's Mahakal Temple to surrender under assurance of some influential person in Madhya Pradesh with hope of being saved from encounter.

"It is necessary to find out why Vikas Dubey chose Ujjain Mahakal temple in Madhya Pradesh for surrender? Under assurance of which influential person of Madhya Pradesh had he come here to escape encounter of Uttar Pradesh Police?" Digvijaya Singh tweeted in Hindi.

Congress leader Alka Lamba echoing similar sentiment has alleged that policemen in lower ranks who were present during encounter are w scared of being silenced. 

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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 this, 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 six policemen were re inside vehicle including driver and Vikas Dubey.