KANPUR: The horror of the
midnight ambush
of policemen in Bikru village was captured in a sensational over 2-minute audio clip, which plays out a conversation between
gangster Vikas Dubey
’s sister-in-law and wife of his henchman,
Sashikant Dubey
, who was nabbed in a pre-dawn raid on Tuesday. The clip, which has gone viral, can be the first testimony to the macabre happenings of the fateful night, which was confirmed by one of the women when mediamen confronted her with the audio proof in Bikru village on Tuesday. TOI, however, could not immediately verify the authenticity of the audio, which surfaced 11 days after the bloodbath.
A traumatized Manu, Sashikant's wife, can be heard screaming on the phone about three blood-splattered bodies of cops lying near her house. “Bhabhi, bodies of policemen have been dumped near my door and in my courtyard. Vikas Dubey and his aides have killed them and fled.” Manu sounds shaken as she seeks advice on how to deal with the crisis. “What will we tell the cops when they come calling,” she asks.
Manu again asks what she would reply if questioned about her husband’s whereabouts. The relatives advise her to tell police that Shashikant didn’t return home and maybe doing double shift at work.
When Manu counters, saying police can enquire from his workplace, the sister-in-law says she could tell police her husband did not call. The woman tells Manu to feign ignorance and not reveal anything to police.
Manu is heard saying she would bury the mobile and then asks if police can track the device if switched off. Then she adds in shock that her husband (Sashikant) had in fact left his mobile at home before fleeing. Her relative advises her to delete all contacts on the cell phone’s receiver list and swiftly go underground. Manu could then be heard saying she would remove the phone’s battery as it would not be possible to run in the pitch darkness and cites her mother’s bed-ridden state.
On Tuesday, media persons visited Bikru village and spoke to Manu, who admitted it was the recording of her voice in the conversation with Vikas’ sister-in-law. She added her mother heard policemen crying and begging Dubey’s sharpshooter, Amar, for their lives. “They were saying Amar bhaiya, Amar bhaiya mujhe mat maaro.” Manu thereafter went on to curse the don, saying, “He (Vikas) made our lives hell, he should have died long ago.”
Amar Dubey
was shot in a police encounter in Hamirpur region of Bundelkhand, just days after the Bikru bloodbath.
Talking to reporters,
IG Kanpur Range Mohit Agarwal
said, “An audio clip of a telephonic conversation between three individuals discussing the crisis after the ambush is being shared on social media. We are verifying it and investigations are underway.”
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