Kanpur/Lucknow: Police on Sunday shot at and arrested an accomplice of gangster Vikas Dubey, whose henchmen had killed eight police personnel at a village near Kanpur, an official said. Dayashankar Agnihotri was injured in the leg during the pre-dawn encounter in Kanpur’s Kalyanpur area.
No policeman was hurt. Police also took into custody a sub-divisional officer (SDO) and another employee at an electricity sub-station, from where power supply was snapped ahead of the failed raid to arrest Dubey in Bikru village near Kanpur past midnight on Thursday. An employee told police that power to the village was disconnected on the instructions of a caller who claimed to be speaking from the nearby Chaubeypur police station. Sources said the call came from a number at Chaubeypur police station, whose station officer Vinay Tiwari was earlier suspended as police tried to find out if he had tipped off the gangster about the planned raid.
Later, Senior Superintendent of Police of Kanpur Dinesh Kumar P said, “When the police had gone to raid (Dubey’s house) around 1 am, there was light and the policemen were targeted and shot at. To ensure that policemen do not become a target again, the SO phoned and asked (electricity department) to disconnect the power supply.”
After being taken into custody, Dayashankar Agnihotri told reporters that Vikas Dubey had got a call “from the police station” about the raid. (PTI)
