Gangster Vikas Dubey, accused of killing eight policemen in a shootout last week, was shot dead Friday morning when he tried to break absolutely free even though currently being taken in a convoy to Kanpur in Uttar Pradesh from Madhya Pradesh’s Ujjain city, wherever he was arrested on Thursday.

“Dubey was killed in come across when he tried to flee just after a highway incident,” Mohit Agarwal, Kanpur’s Inspector Standard of Police, advised news businesses. The incident took area in between Jhansi and Kanpur, The Indian Categorical noted.

A car carrying Dubey, whose age is not known, in the UP Police’s Exclusive Endeavor Force’s (STF) convoy overturned just after skidding on a freeway slippery just after rains. Dubey allegedly snatched a pistol when he was taken out of the upturned car and tried to hearth at the police. He was killed in retaliatory firing and two STF staff were wounded, noted news agency IANS.

Visuals just after the incident confirmed Dubey currently being taken absent on a stretcher to the unexpected emergency ward of the Hallett Clinic in Kanpur. Dinesh Kumar, a senior police officer in Kanpur, mentioned the hospital’s medical professionals confirmed Dubey’s dying.

ADG Kanpur vary, J N Singh confirmed that Dubey “sustained accidents” but did not validate to what extent, expressing it would be uncovered in the postmortem report. Senior Superintendent of Police (Kanpur) Dinesh Kumar mentioned, “Some policemen accompanying Dubey were also wounded in the incident.” He, having said that, did not specify whether or not they were wounded in the incident or in the course of the come across.

Meanwhile, Samajwadi Celebration supremo Akhilesh Yadav raised questions on Dubey’s come across killing, expressing the auto did not topple but it was an hard work to preserve the governing administration from toppling if specifics arrived to gentle. Congress standard secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra took a swipe at the UP governing administration over the come across killing, expressing even though the legal has gone, what about these defending him.

5 associates Dubey’s gang were killed by the police in alleged shootouts in 7 times. Dubey was arrested outside the house a temple in Ujjain on Thursday, ending a manhunt for a guy blamed for entrapping and killing eight policemen who had come to arrest him in Bikru village near Kanpur early morning on July three.

Dubey had allegedly been tipped off by a sub inspector of the community police station about his arrest and escaped just after the policemen’s killing.

Two policemen were arrested for allegedly encouraging him and over sixty community cops shunted out. Dubey had close to sixty instances against him, such as murder and attempt to murder.