Kanpur Encounter: In UP Cops' Killing, Search For Mole As Arrested Man Talks Of Plan Leak

Kanpur Encounter: Police are investigating their local officers to find who leaked information.

All the staff of a police station in Uttar Pradesh -- where 8 policemen were shot down by Vikas Dubey and his gang on Friday -- are suspected of leaking information to the notorious criminal. An associate of Vikas Dubey who was arrested today, has told the police that his boss received information from the police about the impending arrest, after which he called in reinforcements and ambushed the 50-member police team. An employee of a local power station has said power was disconnected in the area after orders from the top, indicating a conspiracy. The station in-charge of the Chaubepur police station has been suspended and is being questioned by the police.

Here are 10 developments in this big story:

The station in-charge of Chaubepur, Rahul Tiwari, has already been suspended. He had not only refused to file a First Information Report against Vikas Dubey, he had also decamped when the police operation against him was about to start. He is currently being questioned by the police.
Dayashankar Agnihotri, a gang member of Vikas Dubey, was arrested this morning. "He (Vikas Dubey) received a phone call from police station before the police came to arrest him," he was quoted as saying by news agency ANI. After this, Vikas Dubey called around 30 people. "He fired bullets on police personnel. I was locked inside the house at the time of encounter therefore saw nothing," ANI quoted him as saying.
ANI also quoted an operator of Kanpur's Shivli Power Sub-station, Chhatrapal Singh, saying on July 3, he received a phone call from Chaubeypur Power Station "to cut power in Bikaru village as a power line was damaged there."
Postmortem report of the policemen, who had walked into an ambush before dawn on Friday, has shown that Deputy Superintendent of Police Devendra Mishra had sustained five bullets in his chest, stomach and right leg. Another officer, Mahesh Yadav sustained eight or nine bullet injuries. One policeman died of excessive bleeding.
Devendra Mishra, who had filed the attempt to murder case against Vikas Dubey and organised the operation to arrest him, was dragged into the house of Dubey's aide Prem Prakash Pandey and shot. His 9 mm pistol was recovered from the house.
Prem Prakash Pandey, also a dreaded criminal and a part of Vikas Dubey's gang, was killed in the encounter.
The policemen had walked into an ambush on Friday morning when they went to catch Vikas Dubey on Friday morning, when assailants from three sides pumped bullets into them. The team was forced to leave their car and walk in the pre-dawn darkness after finding an earthmover blocking the road.
The move to arrest Vikas Dubey came after a local, Rahul Tiwari claimed that the history sheeter had attempted to murder him. When Rahul Tiwari approached the Chaubepur station in-charge Vinay Tiwari to lodge a case, he refused. Rahul Tiwari then approached Devendra Mishra, who got a First Information Report registered.
Vikas Dubey, a notorious criminal mastermind, is wanted in more than 60 cases of attempted murder, abduction, extortion and rioting. A criminal with political links, he was also the member of a political party in the past.
On Saturday, the Kanpur district administration razed the house of Vikas Dubey.