Lucknow/Kanpur: The major aide of gangster Vikas Dubey concerned within the assault by which eight police personnel have been killed was arrested in a pre-dawn encounter in Kanpur, a senior police official stated on Sunday.

The officer additionally stated the money reward introduced by the police on Dubey’s arrest has been elevated to Rs 1 lakh.

“Dayashankar Agnihotri alias Kallu, the main aide of Dubey, has been arrested during an encounter. Agnihotri always used to accompany Dubey and was staying at Dubey’s house (which was demolished Saturday),” Inspector General, Kanpur Range, Mohit Agarwal advised PTI.

“Agnihotri was carrying a money reward of Rs 25,000. He was named accused within the firing incident on the policemen. In the encounter, he acquired bullet accidents on his leg,” Agarwal stated.

Additional Director General of Police, Kanpur, J N Singh advised PTI that the encounter occurred at round 4.30 am in Kalyanpur space of Kanpur.

Agnihotri was admitted to the Lala Lajpat Rai (LLR) hospital and police recovered a country-made pistol and two cartridges from his possession, stated Superintendent of Police (west) Anil Kumar.

Agnihotri advised reporters that Dubey had acquired a name from somebody within the police division informing him about his imminent arrest, and after that he known as his males for a face-to-face confrontation with the police.

Allegations had earlier surfaced towards Vinay Tiwari, Station Officer (SO) of Chaubeypur police station in Kanpur district in whose jurisdiction the incident occurred, for alerting Dubey {that a} police workforce was shifting in the direction of his home to arrest him, following which the gangster and his males attacked the police personnel ensuing within the slaying of eight of them. The SO was suspended on Saturday.

In the early hours of Sunday, police acquired a tip-off and tried to cease Agnihotri on the Kalyanpur-Shivli street when he opened fireplace on them. While no police personnel was damage, Agnihotri acquired bullet accidents on his leg in retaliatory firing.

Meanwhile, IG Agarwal stated, The money reward on Vikas Dubey has been elevated to Rs 1 lakh from Rs 25,000”.

When requested in regards to the motion being taken towards suspended SO Tiwari, Agarwal stated, “He (Vinay Tiwari) has been sent to Police Lines. He has not been detained. Investigations are going on. If any evidence is found which suggests that Tiwari was part of the conspiracy, then he will be detained.”

On the demolition by police of Dubey’s home on Saturday, the IG stated, “Police had info that Dubey had hidden a variety of arms and ammunition in a bunker. There was additionally details about him hiding arms and ammunition within the partitions of the home. The partitions have been damaged in an effort to seek for the weapons. When the partitions have been damaged, the roof additionally collapsed. Large quantity of ammunition was recovered within the digging.”

Shortly after midnight on Friday, eight policemen had walked right into a entice set by Dubey and fell to a hail of bullets fired from rooftops. They got a tearful farewell on Saturday as police started demolishing the felony’s lavish hideout in Bikru village, the scene of the bloody crime.

Seven others, together with a civilian, have been injured within the assault that occurred at the hours of darkness on Thursday. Later, police sealed the complete space and started a combing operation, which led to a different encounter with Dubey’s males in Nivada village by which two of them have been killed.

The eight males killed within the line of responsibility, principally of their 20s and 30s, included Deputy Superintendent of Police Devendra Mishra (54).

The others are Mahesh Kumar Yadav (42), Sub-Inspector Anoop Kumar Singh (32), Sub-Inspector Nebu Lal (48) and Constables Jitendra Pal (26), Sultan Singh (34), Bablu Kumar (23) and Rahul Kumar (24). Their our bodies have been taken again to their properties the place senior cops attended their final rites.

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