The Uttar Pradesh STF issued an official statement on Friday, stating that the official vehicle in which gangster Vikas Dubey was being taken to Kanpur, overturned when a herd of cattle suddenly came in front of it. 

Dubey was arrested from Ujjain’s Mahakal Temple on Thursday morning. He was being brought to Kanpur for appearance in a local court when the vehicle overturned, the official release read.

The driver was tired and while he was trying to avoid the cattle on the road, the vehicle overturned. The incident took place in front of Kanhaiyalal Hospital on the national highway and five policemen were seriously injured, as per the STF’s statement. 

Dubey, who was sitting with them, tried to take advantage of the situation and snatched the pistol of injured Inspector Ramakant Pachauri and ran on the “kaccha” road. 

Deputy SP of the STF Tej Bahadur Singh who was coming in the other vehicle along with policemen ran after him, as per the statement.

“Vikas opened fire indiscriminately at the police which had reached very close to nab him. In self defence, police opened fire in which Vikas Dubey got injured”, the STF claimed. 

He was rushed to a hospital, where he was declared dead. 

Head constable Shivendra Singh Sengar and constable Vimal Yadav of the STF were injured in the firing by Dubey, the statement added.

Dubey was wanted in the gory killing of eight policemen in  UP’s Kanpur, on July 2. The officers were killed in the ambush allegedly laid by Dubey, when they went to nab him.