From ambush to encounter: Police account of how Vikas Dubey was killed

It all started on a Friday and ended on a Friday. Gangster Vikas Dubey, who ambushed and killed eight policemen who had come to arrest him from his Kanpur home on July 3, Friday, was killed in an encounter near the city, in what police called an escape attempt, on July 10, Friday.

In these seven days, the gangster who faced 60 cases, was on the run and was sighted in Faridabad in the NCR region and finally arrested in Ujjain, Madhya Pradesh. Police sources said that the gangster managed the arrest on temple premises to dodge the shoot-at-sight orders that were issued against him.

The gangster’s dramatic cries of ‘I am Vikas Dubey from Kanpur’, while being arrested, were flashed all over TV channels and social media on Thurday. On Friday morning, same platforms flashed visuals of an overturned car and the news of his death in an encounter.

Here is the sequence of events between Dubey’s arrest and death, as put out by the STF:

On Thursday morning, gangster Vikas Dubey is arrested from a temple in Ujjain, Madhya Pradesh.

By evening, the Uttar Pradesh Police’s Special Task Force team, with Dubey in custody, begin their 630 km journey to Kanpur in three cars.

According to STF, as the convoy approached Kanpur, the vehicle carrying the gangster overturned at Barra, some 20 kms from Kanpur.

Vikas Dubey grabs a pistol from a policeman, manages to come out of the vehicle and tries to flee, says the police. All this in pouring rain.

The policemen chased and surrounded him and asked him to surrender, according to the police.

At this point, Dubey opens fire and is injured in retaliatory fire, the police adds. Four cops are also injured.

The gangster is taken to the Lala Lajpat Rai hospital in Kanpur. TV visuals show Dubey being wheeled in on a stretcher with blood all around his chest and shoulders.

The gangster is declared dead.