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  • Allahabad HC denies bail to slain gangster Vikas Dubey’s relative 

    By PTI
    ALLAHABAD: Terming the killing of eight policemen in the Kanpur ambush last year as a “horrendous crime”, the Allahabad High Court denied bail to a woman relative of the slain gangster Vikas Dubey.

    Khushi is the widow of Amar Dubey, an aide and relative of the slain gangster.

    She had allegedly taken an active part in the ambush at Kanpur’s Bikru village on July 3 last year, according to police.

    Days after the ambush, Vikas Dubey was shot dead by the UP Police as he allegedly tried to flee from their custody.

    Khushi had filed the plea against the rejection of bail by a lower court, citing that she had no role in the ambush.

    In her plea, Khushi said she was declared a juvenile by a board on September 1, 2020.

    According to her counsel, Khushi’s age was around 16 years 10 months on the date of the incident.

    It was further pleaded that she was not a member of the gang of Vikas Dubey, rather her husband was a relative of the slain gangster and they had gone to Vikas Dubey’s house on the day of the incident.

    However, the state government opposed the bail plea on the ground that as per statements of the policemen who survived the ambush, she actively participated in the assault.

    She was aiding and instigating the men not to spare any policeman, the state government said in the court.

    Dismissing the bail plea on Friday, Justice J J Munir observed, “An overall look on the circumstances of the case brings to mind the fact that the occurrence, in which the revisionist was involved, was not of an ordinary kind.” 

    “Not only the spontaneous elimination of eight policemen in action and six others left injured, is a horrendous crime that shocks the conscience of the society but also an act that strikes at the roots of the state’s authority in its territory,” the court said.

  • Vikas Dubey encounter: Late gangster’s aides try to sell weapons through links in Madhya Pradesh

    By Express News Service
    BHOPAL: Eight months after he was gunned down in an alleged encounter on Kanpur’s outskirts by the Uttar Pradesh Police’s Special Task Force, slain gangster Vikas Dubey and his gang are still said to have loyalists in Madhya Pradesh.

    Two men, Abhishek Sharma and Jaggu Kushwah, both natives of Mehgaon and Bhind Dehat area of Bhind district were arrested by the police on Saturday and two guns belonging to the slain gangster’s gang were seized from them.

    One of the two guns was a semi-automatic rifle of US make, while the other gun was a 12 bore double barrel gun. Both the seized guns were licensed weapons owned by Dubey’s kin and gang members. One of the guns was licensed in the name of Dubey’s brother Deepak Dubey, who had quietly surrendered before a Lucknow court in December 2020, five months after his most wanted brother’s arrest and encounter.

    According to IG (Chambal Range) Manoj Sharma, the two men had been tasked to sell the two guns to interested people, particularly the semi-automatic rifle which was likely to fetch prices running into lakhs of rupees.

    Among the arrested duo, Sharma is also accused in the theft of 14 guns from the safe custody of the Bhind district court a year and half back. 12 of those guns have been seized so far. The recent arrest comes close on the heels of the arrest of seven men by the Uttar Pradesh STF from Kanpur Dehat area.

    The arrested men included another Bhind resident Manish Yadav, who is the alleged link between Dubey’s gang and his aides in UP and the duo arrested on Saturday. The seven men arrested from Kanpur Dehat area on March 1 had allegedly rendered shelter to Dubey and were accused of selling and buying weapons used by Dubey’s gang members.

    It is recalled that Dubey and hs gang had allegedly killed eight Uttar Pradesh police personnel on the intervening night of July 2 and 3 last year. He had subsequently gone underground, particularly after his key aides were killed in police encounter, before surfacing at the Mahakaleshwar Temple in Ujjain on July 9.

    He was arrested by the Madhya Pradesh Police and handed over to the UP Police the same day. Dubey was gunned down by the UP cops in an alleged encounter the next morning, after he tried to escape following the overturning of the vehicle in which he was being taken.

    After Dubey’s dramatic arrest in Ujjain and subsequent encounter in UP last year, two men were held by the Uttar Pradesh STF from Gwalior for giving shelter to key aides of Dubey, who were allegedly involved in the killing of the UP police personnel.