At least eight Uttar Pradesh police personnel, including a deputy superintendent of police, were killed in an encounter with dreaded criminal Vikas Dubey and his gang members in Kanpur on the intervening night of July 2 and July 3.
The encounter took place when the police team was approaching to arrest Dubey, a history-sheeter facing 60 criminal cases, in Dikru village under Chaubeypur police station.
As the police team was about to reach the hideout of the dreaded criminal, a hail of bullets was showered on them from a building rooftop, leaving deputy SP Devendra Mishra, three sub-inspectors and four constables dead. The notorious criminal might have got an inkling of the impending raid.
He and his henchmen put up massive roadblocks to prevent the police personnel from proceeding towards their hideout. As the police team was caught unawares, the criminals fired at them from a building rooftop leading to the deaths.
On July 3, the Inspector General Kanpur informed that two criminals allegedly involved in the encounter have been neutralised.
The Yogi Adityanath government initially announced a reward of Rs 50,000 for anyone giving information about Dubey. The government assured that the identity of anyone who provides information will be kept secret. The reward was later scaled up to Rs 5 lakh.
