Two U.P. policemen held for tipping off Dubey on raid

Two U.P. policemen held for tipping  off Dubey on raid

Aide killed, six others arrested 

The suspended Station House Officer (SHO) of Chaubeypur, Vinay Tiwari, and beat in­charge K.K. Sharma were arrested on Wednesday on charges of allegedly providing a tip­off to wanted criminal Vikas Dubey about the police raid at his house on the intervening night of July 2­3 when eight policemen were shot dead in an ambush. The two policemen provided information to Dubey about the raid, said Senior Superintendent of Police, Kanpur, Dinesh Kumar. “After collection of evidence, it has come to light that Vikas Dubey had been alerted and [he] set up an ambush and killed the policemen after he had been provided information about the police raid beforehand,” said the SSP. The two were being sent to judicial custody, he added. Meanwhile, the police shot dead Amar Dubey, an aide of Vikas Dubey, who was often seen carrying a gun with him, in an alleged encounter in rural Maudaha in Hamirpur. An illegal semiautomatic .32 bore pistol was recovered from Amar Dubey, said Additional Director General­Law and Order Prashant Kumar. A constable was shot and injured in the encounter, in which Amar allegedly fired at the policemen despite being asked to surrender, the U.P. police said in a statement. Mr. Kumar also said that an absconding accused, Prabhat, and two others, Ankur Mishra and Shrawan Mishra, who allegedly provided him shelter, were arrested from a house in Faridabad in Haryana. Two 9 mm pistols looted from the police on the night of July 2­3, along with two other pistols and 44 live cartridges, were recovered from them, said Mr. Kumar