Kanpur: Slain Bikru gangster Vikas Dubey had hatched his savage and barbaric plan for bloodbath much before the police team reached his village on July 2 night to arrest him and had ordered his aides to fire directly and indiscriminately at the men in khaki and distinctly instructed them not to fire in air.
The shocking revelations were made by Dubey’s aide Umashankar Yadav, who had surrendered in court, on Wednesday.
“Besides, Dubey had planned and discussed the ambush strategy in detail and had sent a message to all his aides to assemble at his residence with firearms by 4pm on July 2,” SP (rural) Brijesh Kumar Srivastava told reporters on Wednesday.
“Umashankar revealed that Dubey had sent his close aides Gopal Saini and Prabhat Mishra to his residence on July 2 afternoon to fetch his licensed gun. Umashankar himself reached Dubey’s house at 8pm and saw the latter’s aides equipped with licensed and illegal firearms. Dubey instructed all the men to fire directly and constantly on the policemen. Following his instructions, the gangster’s aides fired bullets directly at policemen non-stop for half-an-hour after taking positions on roof tops,” the SP added.
Court had on Tuesday remanded Yadav, a resident of nearby Sujja Newada village, arrested for his alleged involvement in killing eight policemen, in police custody from 8am to 4pm.
“Court remanded Yadav in police custody to enable recovery of the weapon, a country-made pistol of 315 bore, used by him and for his custodial interrogation as part of the ongoing probe,” said police.
On the basis of inputs provided by Yadav, police recovered a country-made firearm of 315 bore, two live cartridges and one empty shell from a sand dump near his house.
Dubey and his nearly 36 aides have been accused of killing eight policemen, including deputy SP Devendra Kumar Mishra and three sub-inspectors, and injuring seven others in Bikru village on the fateful night.