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Gangster Vikas Dubey died of ‘haemorrhage, shock’: Autopsy report
Vikas Dubey was killed in an encounter by the special task force (STF) of Uttar Pradesh police on July 10.
Vikas Dubey died because of “haemorrhage and shock” after he received injuries from a firearm, while trying to escape from the police earlier this month, according to the postmortem report of the gangster accused of killing eight policemen in Uttar Pradesh’s Kanpur.
Dubey was killed in an encounter by the special task force (STF) of Uttar Pradesh police on July 10 after he “attempted to flee” while being brought to Kanpur from Madhya Pradesh’s Ujjain city.
He was arrested on July 9 from outside the Mahakal Temple in Ujjain after being on the run since the July 3 attack on the police team out to nab him in Bikru village in Chaubeypur area of Kanpur.
ANI reported that three bullets pierced through his body and that there were ten injuries citing the post-mortem report. The first bullet struck his right side shoulder and two others hit his chest on the left side, ANI said.
The post-mortem report said there were injuries on the head, elbow, rib and stomach on the right side of his body.
The Uttar Pradesh government has formed a one-member judicial commission to probe the encounter after opposition leaders claimed that the gangster was killed in a “fake encounter” to protect the identity of his political masters.
The commission headed by retired justice SK Aggarwal has been given two months’ time to submit its report.
Two of Dubey’s aides, Jaykant Vajpayee and Prashant Shukla, were arrested on Monday for their alleged involvement in the Kanpur encounter.
“Vikas Dubey had called Vajpayee on July 1, following which two accused met him the next day and offered ₹2,00,000 and 25 revolvers. After the incident on July 3, they also helped him escape in three vehicles. However, due to police alertness, they decided to leave the vehicle on July 4,” the police said in a press release, according to ANI.
A first information report (FIR) has been registered against them under multiple sections of the Indian Penal Code (IPC), criminal law amendment act and arms act.
(With agency inputs)
