STF arrests six for assisting gangster Vikas, aides

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Kanpur: The Special Task Force (STF) of Uttar Pradesh Police on Monday arrested six persons on charges of providing shelter and financial aid and also disposing of a semi-automatic weapon of slain gangster Vikas Dubey and his aides from his native village Bikru where he and his more than 50 aides trapped and killed eight policemen, including a DySP, on the night of July 2, 2020.
A Bhind Madhya Pradesh resident, who had purchased a semi-automatic 30 Springfield American rifle from them, has also been arrested.
The STF sleuths also recovered a huge cache of arms and ammunition, including a semi-automatic 30 Springfield American rifle, an automatic carbine, a revolver, a single barrel gun and two country-made pistols, huge number of cartridges including of AK -47, 7.62, 30.06, 12, .38 and 315 bores, besides charger clips of 30.06 cartridge and an Apple phone of Vikas, seven android phones belonging to his aides Amar Dubey and Prabhat Mishra, two four-wheelers including an Omni car, besides a PAN and Aadhaar card and Rs 2.5 lakh in cash from their possession.
“Vishnu Kashyap, Aman Shukla, Ram Ji, Abhinav Tiwari, Sanjay Parihar and Shubham Pal, all natives of Kanpur Dehat, and Manish Yadav of Bhind district of MP were arrested when they were planning to dispose of the remaining arms and ammunition of the slain criminals,” said IG STF Amitabh Yash.
Vishnu Kashyap, a resident of Shivli in Kanpur Dehat and a childhood friend of slain criminal Prabhat Mishra, had played a major role in providing shelter and facilitating escape to Vikas.
“He had borrowed a Swift DZire car from his friend Chotu and used it to transport Vikas, his nephew Amar and co-villager Prabhat to his brother-in-law Ramji’s house in Tulsinagar where they took shelter in the basement. They had also carried with them several arms and ammunition,” the IG added.
On July 3, Ramji took Amar Dubey to an orchard of one Sanjay Parihar in Kariyajhala village from Rasoolabad on his motorcycle. “There Amar Dubey asked Puttu Mishra to arrange for a safe hideout following which he had arranged their stay at the pump house. Amar was later joined by his uncle Vikas and Prabhat Mishra. However, on finding the place unsafe, Vikas again asked Puttu Mishra to arrange for a safer hideout. Subsequently, one Shivam Pal of Mangalpur had arranged a room for Vikas, where he stayed for two days,” he added.
“Shivam had also made arrangements for the gangster’s snacks, lunch and dinner, besides newspaper and TV for latest update on Bikru massacre,” said the official further and added, “After staying there for two days, one Shubham Pal had arranged an Omni car and dropped Vikas, Amar and Prabhat to Auraiya and from where the trio later escaped to Delhi.”
On Monday, the STF team got specific input about the assembly of criminals involved in giving shelter and facilitating escape to Vikas and his aides near Bhauti Panki Padav underpass, where they were to dispose of the remaining arms and ammunition of Vikas and his aides to some unidentified people.
“STF arrested them with arms and ammunition and a case under relevant sections has been registered against them,” The IG said.
To recall, eight policemen, including DySP Devendra Mishra, were ambushed in Bikru village in Chaubeypur area of Kanpur when they were going to arrest Vikas and fell to bullets fired from rooftops shortly after midnight on July 2.
Dubey was killed in an encounter in the morning of July 10 when a police vehicle carrying him from Ujjain to Kanpur met with an accident and he tried to escape from the spot in Bhauti area in Sachendi, the police had said.
Prior to Dubey’s encounter, five of his alleged associates were killed in separate encounters with police.