Police raid Jaikant Bajpai's house in search of his brothers

File photo of Jaikant’s residence
KANPUR:After the arrest of gangster Vikas Dubey’s financier Jaikant Bajpai, now the district police are conducting raids to nab his brothers Rajai, Ajai and Shobhit.
The police, however, had to return empty-handed from their Nazirabad residence in Harshnagar locality, as all three were found to be absconding, during raid on Sunday night.
To recall, the police had booked Jaikant along with his brothers Shobhit (24), Rajaikant (39) and Ajaikant (45)under Section 3 (1) of Uttar Pradesh Gangster Act on July 31.
Jaikan, along with Prashant Shukla alias Dabblu was arrested on July 20 and had also been booked under sections 147 (punishment for rioting), 148 (rioting, armed with deadly weapon), 149 (every member of unlawful assembly guilty of offence committed in prosecution of common object), 302 (murder), 307 (attempt to murder), 395(punishment for dacoity), 412(dishonestly receiving property stolen in the commission of a dacoity) , 120 B of (criminal conspiracy) IPC, said the police and added, but his three brothers continued to evade arrest.
“Now, the police are looking for his three brothers and in the process raids were conducted on Sunday night. Jai was arrested, but his three brothers are still on run and now they are on the top bracket of ‘wanted list’ of the city police,” said SSP Preetinder Singh.
Police had earlier accused Jaykant of providing gangster Vikas Dubey 25 cartridges of .32 bore revolvers and cash worth Rs 2 lakh on July 2 prior to the Bikru ambush which had left eight cops dead and seven including a civilian injured.
He had also attempted to make gangster flee, but was finally arrested along with one of his aide Dabblu.
Jaikant was taken into custody by police on July 4.
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