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A close aide of the gangster Vikas Dubey was shot dead in Uttar Pradesh’s Hamirpur, police said.
Dubey is involved in the killing of eight policemen in Kanpur and has been on the run since the incident last Thursday.
“The aide Amar Dubey was co-accused in the Kanpur incident and was killed on Wednesday morning,” UP Additional Director General of Police, Law and Order, Prashant Kumar said.
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Kanpur: A close aide of the gangster Vikas Dubey was shot dead in Uttar Pradesh’s Hamirpur, police said.
Dubey is involved in the killing of eight policemen in Kanpur and has been on the run since the incident last Thursday.
“The aide Amar Dubey was co-accused in the Kanpur incident and was killed on Wednesday morning,” UP Additional Director General of Police, Law and Order, Prashant Kumar said.
He further said that UP Special Task Force (STF) gunned him down in coordination with the local police unit in Hamirpur.
There was a reward of Rs 25,000 on him, Kumar added.
A police inspector and a constable of the STF were injured in the gun fight.
Hamirpur Suerintendent of Police (SP) Shlok Kumar as saying that an automatic weapon and a bag was recovered from Amar Dubey’s possession.