Jaipur: The Rajasthan Police on Friday arrested a man, Lokesh Meena, for allegedly calling a Police Control Room and threatening to blow up the Chief Minister’s Residence (CMR). The security agencies went on high alert soon after the call was received at 9.30 a.m. After a probe, the police arrested a 26-year-old man from Jaipur […]
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Video clips punch holes in STF theory of encounter
Kanpur: Videos of events that led to the encounter of gangster Vikas Dubey are contradicting the claims made by the Special Task Force (STF) that he was shot dead on Friday morning when he tried to escape. Vikas Dubey was wanted for the massacre of eight policemen in Bikru village on July 3 and was […]
Vikas Dubey cremated at Bhairon Ghat in Kanpur
Kanpur: Hours after dreaded gangster Vikas Dubey was killed in an encounter by the Uttar Pradesh Special Task Force (STF), his body was cremated at the Bhairon Ghat in Kanpur on Friday. Earlier, the autopsy on the body was done under the supervision of Dr. RC Gupta at the post-mortem centre here, a police official […]
Vikas Dubey’s autopsy done, no family member comes to claim body
Kanpur: No one has so far turned up to claim the body of gangster Vikas Dubey, even hours after he was killed in a police ‘encounter’ about 30 km from the city on Friday morning. The autopsy on the body was over at the post-mortem centre in Kanpur city, a police official told IANS on the […]
Cows, buffaloes caused accident of car carrying Vikas Dubey, claims UP STF
Lucknow: The UP STF has now claimed that a herd of cows and buffaloes suddenly appeared before the vehicle that was bringing gangster Vikas Dubey to Kanpur and this caused the accident, following which he tried to escape but was shot dead. “The herd of cows, buffaloes suddenly came in front of the vehicle and […]
Vikas Dubey’s encounter raises more questions than it answers
New Delhi: Dreaded gangster Vikas Dubey while being brought to Uttar Pradesh from Ujjain in Madhya Pradesh was gunned down by the UP STF early morning on Friday in Kanpur. The police said that Dubey tried to escape after the vehicle in which he was travelling with the police party overturned. A day before Prabhat, another […]
Kin of slain cops hail UP Police for Dubey’s encounter
Kanpur: Even as opposition parties raised doubts over the encounter killing of gangster Vikas Dubey on Friday morning, the families of eight police officials killed in an ambush by the criminal and his men on July 3 patted the Uttar Pradesh Police over the development. “I am very proud of the Uttar Pradesh Police. Whatever […]
NHRC’s intervention sought into gangster Vikas Dubey’s encounter case
New Delhi: Political analyst Tehseen Poonawalla on Friday sought National Human Rights Commission’s (NHRC) intervention into gangster Vikas Dubey’s encounter killing earlier in the day near Kanpur in Uttar Pradesh and asserted that the “due process of law was not followed”. Poonawalla said that the encounter raised many doubts. Gangster Dubey and his accomplices were accused […]
Mayawati demands for SC inquiry into Vikas Dubey’s death
Lucknow: Bahujan Samaj Party national president Mayawati has demanded an inquiry by the Supreme Court into the death of gangster Vikas Dubey in a police encounter in Kanpur on Friday. He was the main accused in the murder of eight policemen in Kanpur. Mayawati tweeted, saying, “The overturning of the police vehicle and the subsequent death […]
Lord Shiva took ‘demon’ Dubey’s life: Uma Bharti
Bhopal: Former Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Uma Bharti on Friday praised the Uttar Pradesh Police for the alleged encounter killing of gangster Vikas Dubey, adding that Lord Shiva took the life of ‘demon’ Dubey for killing an honest police officer like (Circle Officer) Devendra Mishra. Dubey was arrested on Thursday from Ujjain after he was […]