
New Delhi: Daya shankar Agnihotri, one of the accomplice of gangster Vikas Dubey who was arrested has opened up on Kanpur encounter after being interrogated by the police.
The caught accused has made a big disclosure about the incident.
In a new development in the gruesome incident, Agnihotri claimed that Dubey had received a phone call before the police team came to arrest him.
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He added that Dubey had called around 25-30 people and had fired shots at the police. In his defence, Agnihotri said, “I was locked inside the house at the time of encounter. Therefore, I saw nothing.” Dubey has been on the run from the law enforcement authorities.
Kanpur: Police have arrested Daya Shankar Agnihotri, an accomplice of history-sheeter Vikas Dubey in Kalyanpur. Agnihotri was arrested following an encounter last night.
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He(Vikas Dubey) received a phone call from police station before the police came to arrest him. Following this, he called around 25-30 ppl. He fired bullets on police personnel. I was locked inside the house at the time of encounter therefore saw nothing: Daya Shankar Agnihotri pic.twitter.com/TStRY1fz8B
— ANI UP (@ANINewsUP) July 5, 2020
Meanwhile, the Uttar Pradesh Police has suspended a Station House Officer (SHO) on allegations that he was involved in the killings of the eight policemen. Also on Saturday, Dubey’s house, where the killings took place, was demolished by the police.