Eight policemen, including a deputy superintendent of police, were killed during an operation to nab gangster Vikas Dubey late on Thursday in Uttar Pradesh’s Kanpur district.
The police team was out to look for him after a villager, Rahul Tiwari, lodged a case of attempt to murder against Vikas Dubey recently. They had conducted raids on the basis of Tiwari’s first information report (FIR) in Bikru village. Apart from this, there are 60 cases, including that of murder, robberies and kidnappings, against Vikas Dubey.
Vikas Dubey was the prime accused in the murder of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Santosh Shukla, who had been given the rank of a minister of state, inside the Shivli police station in 2001. Two policemen were also killed in the attack.The resident of Bikru village, where he keeps a private army, was later acquitted by a session court. Dubey, who is in his 40s, was also named in the murder of Siddheshwar Pandey, the principal and assistant manager of Tarachand Inter College, in 2000. He had joined the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) and was elected as a member of the nagar panchayat.
In 2000, he was named in the murder of Siddheshwar Pandey, an Assistant Manager of Tarachand Inter College in Shivali police station area of Kanpur. He is said to have conspired wihtin a jail the murder of Rambabu Yadav, the same year. He is accused of the murder of cable businessman Dinesh Dubey in the year 2004.
In 2018, he carried out a deadly attack on his cousin Anurag and had plotted the entire plan from within the premises of Mati jail. Anurag's wife had named four people including Vikas Dubey in the attack. While he was lodged in the jail, he won the Shivrajpur Nagar Panchayat election.