Police rejected this claim in Vikas Dubey encounter case

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Vikas Dubey, an accused and accused of killing eight policemen in Bikeru village in Kanpur, was allegedly stopped by media vehicles plying with police convoys from Ujjain in Kanpur to Kanpur near Sanchedi, although police These allegations have been dismissed outright.


In a video that has gone viral on social media, it is seen that about thirty minutes before the encounter site with Dubey, the vehicles of the media were stopped. A journalist, on the condition of anonymity, told that the police stopped the vehicles behind the police convoy at several places. The journalist said that media vehicles were stopped in Sanchedi area too, shortly after which news of Dubey being killed in an encounter in Bhuthi area came.

When asked about this, Senior Superintendent of Police of Kanpur, Dinesh Kumar P, said that he had no information that the vehicles of media persons coming behind the police vehicle carrying Vikas Dubey were stopped. He said media vehicles were not stopped. A senior STF official said that media vehicles may have been stopped for investigation.