Kanpur: 2 khaki 'moles' held for tipping off don & fleeing encounter site

KANPUR: After

Chaubeypur police station

was cleansed of 68 rogue cops, who stood mute witness to the bloodbath at Bikru village on covert orders from their boss, the two sub-inspectors, who fled the encounter site on the fateful night, Vinay Tiwari and

K K Sharma

were arrested on Wednesday. All 68 policemen were sent to the lines on Tuesday.

The arrests followed damning evidence that these policemen were on the payroll of

gangster Vikas Dubey

and had tipped him off about the midnight raid. “Station house officer Vinay Tiwari and beat in-charge K K Sharma, who were suspended after the encounter, were arrested on charges of fleeing the encounter site and putting lives of cops at risk,” said senior superintendent of police (Kanpur) Dinesh Kumar Prabhu.

“SHO Vinay Tiwari and sub-inspector K K Sharma were taken into custody and interrogated for several hours by STF personnel aftere their allegiance to gangster Dubey was established during preliminary investigations,” said an STF official.

To recall, the slain DSP Devendra Mishra had shot off a missive to then SSP, Kanpur, Anant Deo, exposing Tiwari’s nexus with gangster Vikas Dubey. The letter went viral on social media on Monday. In the letter, Mishra sought action against Tiwari, but Anant Deo allegedly ignored the complaint. The letter was recovered from the DSP’s suitcase during scrutiny of documents after his death allegedly by his elder daughter, Vaishnavi. Soon after the letter blew up on the face of the UP Police brass, Anant Deo, who was DIG, STF, was shunted out.