{"id":324557,"date":"2020-07-10T03:58:32","date_gmt":"2020-07-10T03:58:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=324557"},"modified":"2020-07-10T03:58:32","modified_gmt":"2020-07-10T03:58:32","slug":"gangster-vikas-dubey-killed-in-encounter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/gangster-vikas-dubey-killed-in-encounter\/","title":{"rendered":"Gangster Vikas Dubey killed in encounter"},"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-324558 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/accident.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"686\" height=\"458\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/07\/accident.jpg 686w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/07\/accident-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/07\/accident-629x420.jpg 629w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 686px) 100vw, 686px\" \/>Gangster Vikas Dubey was killed in an encounter on Friday after he reportedly tried to flee a police vehicle, carrying him from Ujjain to Kanpur met with an accident.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">According to police, Dubey tried to flee by snatching the pistol of policemen after the car overturned. However, he was surrounded by the police team and was injured in an exchange of fire. He was taken to the hospital, where he was declared dead.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The history-sheeter, accused of masterminding a deadly ambush on a police party in Bikru village in Kanpur, was arrested in Madhya Pradesh\u2019s Ujjain on Thursday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Hours before his arrest, two of his associates were killed in separate encounters in UP. 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;\">Dubey had 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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gangster Vikas Dubey was killed in an encounter on Friday after he reportedly tried to flee a police vehicle, carrying him from Ujjain to Kanpur met with an accident. According to police, Dubey tried to flee by snatching the pistol of policemen after the car overturned. However, he was surrounded by the police team and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":324558,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2009,2014,2015],"tags":[283,13184],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324557"}],"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=324557"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324557\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":324559,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324557\/revisions\/324559"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/324558"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=324557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=324557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=324557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}