‘Vikas ran amok prior to ambush,feared being killed in encounter’

Kanpur: Yet another video of Manu, wife of Shashikant Pandey, aide of slain gangster Vikas Dubey, surfaced on Sunday in which she recalls that Vikas ran amok prior to the ambush in Bikru on July 3 as he feared being killed in encounter by police.
Manu, in whose house deputy SP Devendra Mishra was killed, says in the video, “After pumping bullets into CO Devendra Mishra along with Amar and Atul, Vikas was constantly shouting at the CO and hurling choicest abuses at him. Vikas shouted at the CO that he had come to kill him in encounter, but see the consequence.”
Soon after his arrest in Ujjain, Vikas Dubey had also told police that he did not get along well with Circle Officer (CO) Devendra Mishra, as the latter always used to threaten him.
Dubey had also revealed that SHO Vinay Tiwari had also told him that Mishra was against him. He also confessed that he had crude bombs also that were kept in his maternal uncle’s house and were used against the cops during the ambush.
On receiving a tip-off about a police raid at his house from his sources, Vikas had asked all his aides to come to his house and bring along their firearms.
Investigators also found that after firing stopped, Vikas and village head Ram Singh Yadav went around checking policemen in torch light and pumped more bullets on finding them alive.
It also came to light that after killing eight policemen, Dubey had piled up five bodies one over the other and planned to set them on fire by pouring kerosene on them. He had stocked 50 gallons of kerosene for the purpose, but could not do so as the fear of being caught overpowered him and he fled with others.
Villagers in Bikru say Vikas was in the habit of abusing and pointing guns at people on the slightest of arguments.