In the Bikru village, where eight police officers were ambushed last week when Vikas Dubey was arrested, the administration increased security and deployed the Rapid Action Force. (Reuters)
The wife, son, and maid of Vikas Dubey, who was detained by the STF for questioning in connection with the deadly ambush of a police team, returned to their home in Lucknow after the gangster cremation in Kanpur, police said Saturday.
The gangster’s wife, Richa Dubey, her son, and her maid were held at a Mahila police station in Kanpur after being brought from their Krishna Nagar residence in Lucknow for questioning, a police officer in Kanpur said. He said that Richa Dubey and the maid were questioned for more than 5 hours.
They returned to Lucknow on Friday, another police officer said here.
However, they have not appeared in public since the cremation at Kanpur on Friday, when Richa Dubey said her husband “was wrong and deserved this fate.”
Kanpur Jail Superintendent R K Jaiswal told PTI that neither Richa Dubey nor her maid was taken to the District Jail or the makeshift jail in Chaubeypur near the gangster town of Bikru due to the coronavirus pandemic.
In the Bikru village, where eight police officers were ambushed last week when Vikas Dubey was arrested, the administration increased security and deployed the Rapid Action Force.
Kanpur: Police deployed at the demolished residence of Vikas Dubey, in the Bikru village of Kanpur, on Friday, July 10, 2020. (PTI)
Police personnel in a vehicle made an announcement to villagers to share information about those who stole police weapons during the encounter within 24 hours. Nearly 60 policemen had held a vigil outside Vikas Dubey’s demolished house after news spread that the gangster was killed on Friday.
The police officers were sitting on wooden beds under a neem tree, watching a steady stream of mediators arrive with a variety of questions. A broken baseball bat, damaged tractors, and some two-wheeled vehicles and an SUV were seen inside the building, some 18 km from the Chaubeypur police station.
Meanwhile, two gangster aides were arrested by Thane’s ATS in Maharashtra. Defendant Arvind alias Guddan Trivedi and his driver Sonu Tiwari were wanted in connection with the murder of eight police officers in the ambush and also in the 2001 murder of State Minister Santosh Shukla, an official said.
Vikas Dubey was shot dead on Friday by police, who say he was trying to flee after the car carrying him from Ujjain overturned in an isolated stretch on the outskirts of Kanpur. The SUV overturned on the slippery highway after the rain, police said. According to a statement from the Special Task Force, the driver had tried to avoid cattle on the road.
Police said the gangster stole a gun from one of the police officers injured in the accident and was shot when he opened fire in an attempt to escape.
Six policemen, including two from the Special Task Force, were injured in the accident and the exchange of fire around 6 a.m. on Friday, an official said.
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