Gangster Vikas Dubey gets shot dead by UP Police in a filmy encounter.

UP Police claims that after an accident on the road, Vikas Dubey opened fire on the Police and refused to surrender, injured two cops and got shot himself in Police’s retaliation fire.

In a dramatic set of events that feel very much like a Bollywood movie, Kanpur gangster Vikas Dubey was killed in a police encounter on early Friday morning. Dubey was a prime accuse in the killing of eight police personnel in Kanpur 8 days ago, was killed after he allegedly tried to escape from the police who were bringing the notorious history-sheeter to Kanpur from Ujjain, where the Madhya Pradesh Police caught him yesterday. Vikas Dubey was arrested near the Mahakaal Mandir in Ujjain on Thursday. To bring the gangster back to Uttar Pradesh, a police team from the state had gone to MP. But it was not to be as the gangster carrying five-lakh-reward on his head, was killed by the UP police in an encounter.

Dubey attempted to flee:

Assistant Superintendent of Police, Kanpur, Dr Anil Kumar in a statement said that Kanpur police along with UP’s Special Task Force (STF) were bringing Vikas Dubey on transit remand to Kanpur. The vehicle in which Dubey was traveling overturned after it met with an accident in Kanpur’s Sachendi area at around 7.00 in the morning. The police claim that Dubey took advantage of the accident and attempted to flee with a service pistol that belonged to one of the police officers.

An encounter right out of the Bollywood movies?

But another police team vehicle arrived on the spot minutes after Dubey’s escape and commenced a combing operation to nab Dubey. The police further claimed that Dubey, saw the police closing in on him and opened fire at them. Dubey injured two police officers

and rejected to surrender to the cops. The police retaliated with gun-fire and Dubey was wounded. Dr Anil Kumar said that all the three people injured in the encounter were rushed to a hospital where doctors declared Dubey dead.