SHO of Chaubepur Police Station Vinay Tiwari has been suspended on suspicion of being informer of Vikas Dubey.
AGENCIES / LUCKNOW
UP Police have formed more than 25 teams to nab wanted criminal, history-sheeter Vikas Dubey. Teams were formed a day after eight police personnel were killed by criminals during a raid to arrest him in kanpur.
“To nab Vikas Dubey and his accomplices, as many as 25 teams have been formed which are conducting raids in different districts of the state and other states as well,” said Inspector General of Police, Kanpur, Mohit Agarwal.
Police officials also said the surveillance team was scanning over 500 mobile phones and efforts were on to retrieve information pertaining to Dubey, who has faced about 60 criminal cases. The Special Task Force of UP Police has also been roped in.
Police had late on Friday night raided Dubey’s house in Krishnanagar area of Lucknow.
Meanwhile Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath rushed to Kanpur on Friday to meet the family members of the slain policemen and announced financial assistance of Rs one crore each to the bereaved families.
Eight police personnel, including a DSP, were gunned down in a village near the city by the henchmen of a criminal who lost two of them in a firefight later, officials said.
Meanwhile local administration has demolished house of gangster Vikas Dubey, who killed 8 policemen in Uttar Pradesh. The district administration demolished Vikas’s house from the same JCB, from which he blocked the path of the police.
The tractor and two SUV cars parked in Vikas’s house also broken. The police and administration teams had reached Bikaru village from Saturday morning. 100 teams of police are raiding different areas in search of Vikas. Meanwhile SHO of the Chaubepur Police Station Vinay Tiwari has been suspended on suspicion of being informer of Vikas Dubey. STF is questioning him them.
Seven others, including a civilian, were injured in the attack from a rooftop on a police team after it entered Bikru village past Thursday midnight to arrest Dubey. The attackers fled, snatching weapons from the dead and the wounded policemen.