{"id":324543,"date":"2020-07-09T05:16:53","date_gmt":"2020-07-09T05:16:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=324543"},"modified":"2020-07-10T03:59:13","modified_gmt":"2020-07-10T03:59:13","slug":"gangster-vikas-dubey-wanted-in-killing-of-8-cops-in-kanpur-arrested-in-madhya-pradeshs-ujjain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/gangster-vikas-dubey-wanted-in-killing-of-8-cops-in-kanpur-arrested-in-madhya-pradeshs-ujjain\/","title":{"rendered":"Gangster Vikas Dubey, wanted in killing of 8 cops in Kanpur, arrested in Madhya Pradesh&#8217;s Ujjain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-324544 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/vikas-dubey-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"637\" height=\"472\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/07\/vikas-dubey-1.jpg 637w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/07\/vikas-dubey-1-300x222.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/07\/vikas-dubey-1-80x60.jpg 80w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/07\/vikas-dubey-1-485x360.jpg 485w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/07\/vikas-dubey-1-567x420.jpg 567w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 637px) 100vw, 637px\" \/>Gangster Vikas Dubey, the main accused in the Kanpur encounter case, has been arrested from Madhya Pradesh&#8217;s Ujjain.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">He is the main accused in the killing of eight policemen in Kanpur\u2019s Bikru village under the jurisdiction of Chaubepur Police Station in Uttar Pradesh.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">On Thursday morning,\u00a0two of his associates were killed\u00a0in separate encounters in UP, police said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Dubey, who was on the run since last Thursday was arrested from near the Mahakal temple. His\u00a0closest aide Amar Dubey\u00a0was killed in an encounter with cops on Wednesday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">More than 40 teams and a Special Task Force (STF) were commissioned to nab the wanted criminal.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan in a tweet congratulated Ujjain Police for the arrest of Vikas Dubey.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Dubey has over 60 cases against him including murder, kidnapping, extortion and rioting.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Eight policemen were killed in the encounter which broke out when police went to arrest Vikas Dubey in a village in Kanpur on July 2.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">As the police party reached the Bikru village to make the arrest, criminals opened indiscriminate fire from the rooftops,\u00a0leaving Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP) Devendra Mishra, three sub-inspectors and four constables dead, officials said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gangster Vikas Dubey, the main accused in the Kanpur encounter case, has been arrested from Madhya Pradesh&#8217;s Ujjain. He is the main accused in the killing of eight policemen in Kanpur\u2019s Bikru village under the jurisdiction of Chaubepur Police Station in Uttar Pradesh. On Thursday morning,\u00a0two of his associates were killed\u00a0in separate encounters in UP, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":324544,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2923,2009,2014,2015,2026],"tags":[1464,1480,13184],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324543"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=324543"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324543\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":324560,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324543\/revisions\/324560"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/324544"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=324543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=324543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=324543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}