Vikas Dubey Killed In Encounter As He Tries To Escape After Car Overturns

Mumbai: In dramatic development on Friday morning, Vikas Dubey, a gangster who surrendered in Ujjain on Thursday, was killed in an encounter in Kanpur.

According to reports, he tried to snatch a constable’s pistol and flee the scene but was shot dead in an encounter by the police.

Many policemen are also said to have sustained injuries in the encounter. This comes exactly one week after eight police personnel, killed in action after a police team, which had gone to arrest him and which they were part of, came under fire from him and his associates.

“Vikas Dubey attempted to flee by snatching the pistol of the injured policemen after the car overturned. Police tried to make him surrender, during which he fired at the policemen. He was injured in retaliatory firing by police. He was later rushed to the hospital,” SP Kanpur West said. 

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Earlier, the history-sheeter had surrendered at the famous Mahakal temple in Ujjain, Madhya Pradesh, lasting six days after killing eight police personnel. He reached Ujjain from Faridabad in Haryana, where he spent the night with a relative after escaping from Kanpur.

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