Arms, ammunition recovered from four Vikas Dubey aides

KANPUR: The police claimed to have recovered a DBBL gun and three country-made pistols of 315 bore, besides live and empty cartridges of 315 and 12 bores from four aides of slain gangster Vikas Dubey on Saturday.
The four aides identified as Shivam Dubey, Zileydar Singh, Dharmendra alias Dheeru and Govind Saini were booked under Sections 147, 148, 149, 302, 307, 394, 120 b, 7 CLA Act and 3/25 Arms Act with regard to Bikru shootout on July 2 & 3 night. The police since then were on lookout for them and others, but the four managed to surrender at the Special Court in Mati in Kanpur Dehat in the past few days.
SSP Preetinder Singh stated that after their surrender the police had sought their remand in an effort to interrogate them further to unravel more clues, besides recovery of firearms from them. “Intense questioning of these accused led to recovery of a good number of arms and ammunition. We have recovered three 315 bore pistols from Shivam, Govind and Zileydar, while a DBBL gun from Dharmendra. We have also recovered empty and live shells of 315 and 12 bores from them. A case under Arms act has also been lodged against the four,” the SSP added. The said more arrests are likely to follow in the case. “The int errogation of the four has led us towards definite clues and a few more aides of Vikas who are on run will be arrested soon. The police has also conducted a few raids in the city,” he added.