Hamirpur, Uttar Pradesh:

Needed legal Vikas Dubey’s shut aide Amar Dubey, who was also involved in the ambush past week in which eight policemen have been killed, was chased down and shot lifeless by the police in Uttar Pradesh on Wednesday.

Amar Dubey was quantity one particular on the checklist of 15 of Vikas Dubey’s aides becoming hunted by the law enforcement because the killing of cops in Kanpur all through a failed raid.

Sources say Amar Dubey was married previous 7 days, days just before the killings. Vikas Dubey was instrumental in the marriage.

Amar Dubey was reportedly in demand of Vikas Dubey’s stability and travelled with him armed with a rifle. Stories also propose that he was a single of the principal planners of the Friday ambush.

He carried a reward of Rs 25,000. On a suggestion-off, the Uttar Pradesh special endeavor drive tracked him down to a village in Hamirpur district. When the teams arrived at, they had been fired upon.

Very last week, 8 policemen were being killed when law enforcement groups went to Bikru village in Chaubeypur place of Kanpur to arrest Vikas Dubey in an attempted murder case.

Vikas Dubey was allegedly tipped off by policemen in Chaubeypur and was waiting around with an armed gang for the police groups in the early hrs of Friday. When the law enforcement entered the village, they had been amazed by firing from rooftops. 8 died on the spot.

Vikas Dubey, the notorious criminal with 60 conditions of murder, rioting, kidnapping and extortion, escaped alongside with other people included in the firing. Dubey, who carries a reward of Rs 2.5 lakh, was spotted at a resort in Faridabad close to Delhi on Tuesday. 

Earlier, two a lot more aides of Vikas Dubey, Prem Prakash Pandey and Atul Dubey, had been killed.

Vikas Dubey’s close relative Shama, neighbour Suresh Verma and domestic enable Rekha and her spouse Dayashankar Agnihotri, a crucial member of his gang, have been arrested by police.

All 68 policemen at the Chaubeypur Police Station have been removed and shunted to the reserve law enforcement traces as they are investigated in excess of alleged inbound links with Vikas Dubey.

The motion followed revelations from a letter seemingly published by Deputy Superintendent of Law enforcement Devendra Mishra, who was among the cops killed in the Kanpur taking pictures. In the letter written 3 months back, Mr Mishra experienced advised Anand Deo, then Senior Superintendent of Law enforcement in Kanpur, that Chaubeypur station officer Vinay Tiwari had watered down an FIR lodged versus the gangster.

The letter circulated on social media recommended that Vinay Tiwari was near to Vikas Dubey and aided him. But UP law enforcement say there is no record of these kinds of a letter.