Vikas Dubey aide Govind Saini surrenders in court

KANPUR: Govind Saini, another close aide of

slain gangster Vikas Dubey

who was carrying a reward of Rs 25,000 on his head, surrendered before the anti-dacoity court in Maati in

Kanpur Dehat district

on Monday evening.

Govind is younger brother of

Gopal Saini

, who had surrendered in Maati in Kanpur Dehat district on July 30 evening. Their house is located nearby the house of Prem Prakash Pandey, who was gunned down along with Atul Dubey soon after the Bikru ambush on July 3 morning.

Govind was one among the accused who have been absconding and Special Task Force (STF) and the district police were looking for him and others since the Bikru ambush on July 2 & 3 night wherein, eight policemen, including deputy Superintendent of Police Devendra Kumar Mishra, shot dead, besides six others including a civilian were injured by gangster Vikas Dubey and his aides when they had gone to arrest him in connection with an attempt to murder case lodged at Chaubeypur police station by a local Rahul Tiwari.

Additional Government Counsel Prashant Mishra told reporters that Govind Saini, accused in the killing of eight policemen, surrendered before the anti-dacoity court at Maati in Kanpur Dehat on Monday evening.Saini's advocate had moved an application for his surrender before the Special court, he said and added that he has been sent to jail in 14 days judicial custody.

Police further said that Govind used to run a grocery shop in

Bikru village

and had hurled bombs on police party on July 2 & 3."We will move an application before the court requesting for his remand so that he can be interrogated with regard to Bikru ambush besides to gather inputs related to 11 other members of Vikas Dubey's gang who are still on run," he said.

The police are now on lookout for 11 other aides of gangster including his brother Deep Prakash, Raja Ram, Shiv Tiwari, Vishnu Pal Yadav alias Ziledar, Ram Singh, Ramu Bajpai, Heeru Dubey,

Bauwan Shukla

, Shivam Dubey and Bal Govind Singh.


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