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- Published: July 9, 2020 09:00
New Delhi: The police have gunned down two more close aides of Dubey – Prabhat Mishra and Praveen Dubey.
Dubey was killed in Etawah when he was trying to escape after stealing a car.
Police van broke down while Prabhat Mishra was being brought to Kanpur. He took advantage of the situation,snatched pistol from policeman,fired at our men&tried to escape.Our personnel retaliated, during which Prabhat got killed.Several policemen injured in incident:ADG Kanpur https://t.co/d05i9tQggk pic.twitter.com/TfRoe4yMab
— ANI UP (@ANINewsUP) July 9, 2020
Mishra, meanwhile, was being brought to Kanpur after his arrest in Haryana’s Faridabad. He was gunned down when he tried to flee from the police custody.
“The police personnel were changing the tyre of escort vehicles as it got punctured near Panki on way to Kanpur. Mishra tried to escape and was shot down,” said ADG (Law and Order), Prashant Kumar.
Last week, eight policemen were ambushed and killed when 50 policemen from three stations went to Bikru village in Chaubeypur area of Kanpur to arrest wanted gangster Vikas Dubey in an attempted murder case.
On Wednesday, one of his close aides – Amar Dubey – was chased down and shot dead in Hamirpur district. Amar Dubey was number one on the list of 15 of Vikas Dubey’s aides being hunted by the police since the killing of cops in Kanpur during a failed raid.
Another aide – Shyamu Bajpai – was arrested in a separate encounter in Kanpur on Wednesday.