Vikas Dubey Encounter HIGHLIGHTS: Gangster Cremated At Kanpur's Bhairav Ghat; Post-Mortem Report Awaited

Vikas Dubey Encounter HIGHLIGHTS: The UP gangster was being brought to Kanpur from Madhya Pradesh's Ujjain on Friday when one of the cars in the police convoy overturned. The police allegedly fired at Dubey as he attempted to snatch a weapon and flee the scene. At least 4 policemen have also been injured in the encounter. Get all HIGHLIGHTS of gangster Vikas Dubey's encounter:

Background

New Delhi: Vikas Dubey shot dead in an encounter by STF on Friday morning in Kanpur.  It is being said that history-sheeter tried to flee away with arms and he was shot in an encounter by the Special Task Force. The gangster was taken to the hospital after he was injured in the encounter.

Vikas was being brought to Kanpur from Ujjain and had to be produced at the court by 10 am.

One of the three police cars taking gangster Vikas Dubey to Uttar Pradesh from Madhya Pradesh, where he was arrested, overturned early this morning on the highway.

Vikas Dubey, on the run since he organized the massacre of eight policemen in Kanpur last Friday, was arrested yesterday at a temple in Ujjain, Madhya Pradesh.

He reportedly drove from Kanpur to Faridabad, through Kota in Rajasthan to Madhya Pradesh - around 1,500 km - without being checked.

The history-sheeter, accused of masterminding a deadly ambush on a police party outside his Bikru village home, was arrested outside Mahakal temple in the pilgrimage city of Ujjain on Thursday after purchasing prasad and an entry ticket to the shrine, ending a six-day manhunt.

Questions were raised on the manner in which he was caught and whether it was an arrest or the gangster turned himself in at a time and place of his choosing. Senior UP police officer Mohit Agarwal said: "We had caught many of his associates and a few were killed. So definitely he was trying to save his life and on the run."

21:57 PM (IST)  •  10 Jul 2020

A panel of three doctors at Lala Lajpat Rai Hospital, which is attached to Ganesh Shankar Vidhyarthi Medical College, performed the post-mortem of Vikas Dubey. The post-mortem has been videographed, a doctor involved in it said, adding that the police have been briefed about the findings and the report would be handed over very soon.

20:57 PM (IST)  •  10 Jul 2020

History-sheeter Vikas Dubey, who was killed in an alleged encounter on Friday morning, has been cremated at Kanpur's Bhairav Ghat. Gangster's brother-in-law Dinesh Tiwari had reached the post mortem house to collect the body.

Meanwhile, post-mortem report of Dubey is still awaited. Doctors have informed that gangster had received four bullet injuries, three of them in the chest, said the principal of a medical college where the gangster was brought.