Kanpur: Police on Saturday night booked one more alleged aide of slain gangster Vikas Dubey for using a SIM card obtained on the ID of another person. The FIR was filed at the Nawabganj police station.
"An FIR was lodged under relevant sections of IPC against Raju Bajpai, an alleged aide of slain gangster Vikas Dubey, a resident of Surya Vihar Khora area of Nawabganj, who was in possession of a SIM card obtained on ID of one Deepak Bajpai” said inspector Nawabganj Ramakant Pachauri.
Earlier on Friday, on the recommendations of SIT, police had booked nine persons, including the gangster's wife Richa Dubey, his aides--Monu, Ram Singh, Shiv Tiwari, Shanti Devi (minor wife of slain Amar Dubey), Rekha Agnihotri, Vishnupal and the gangster's brother Deep Prakash Dubey for using SIM cards of other persons.
To recall, the government had formed SIT to probe the killings of eight policemen, including a deputy SP rank officer in Bikru village.
On the recommendations of SIT, police had also registered an FIR on Friday against nine persons, including slain gangster Vikas Dubey's brother and wife, for obtaining an arm license by using fake documents.
It may be mentioned that eight policemen, including DSP Devendra Mishra, were ambushed in Bikru village in Chaubeypur area of Kanpur when they were going to arrest Dubey, and fell to bullets fired from the rooftops shortly after midnight on July 2 and 3.
Dubey, arrested by Madhya Pradesh Police on July 9, was killed in an encounter in the morning of July 10 when the police vehicle carrying him from Ujjain to Kanpur reportedly met with an accident and he tried to escape from the spot in Bhauti area in Sachendi, police had said.
Prior to Dubey’s encounter, five of his alleged associates were killed in separate encounters, while more than 44 other accused have been identified, out of which 37 were arrested and sent to jail.