Vikas Dubey, the UP gangster behind the cold-blooded killing of eight policeman last week, was killed in the encounter after a road accident on Friday morning while being taken to Kanpur in Uttar Pradesh from Madhya Pradesh, where he was arrested yesterday.
Vikas Dubey snatched the gun of a policeman and tried to run but was surrounded, the police said, asserting that they had tried to get him to surrender. He was rushed to the hospital, where he was declared dead.
"The car overturned and policemen and the accused were injured. Then Vikas Dubey grabbed a gun from an injured policeman and ran. The police team caught up and surrounded him and tried to get him to surrender, but he refused and started firing. The police had to fire back in self-defence," the Kanpur police said in a statement.
"Vikas Dubey was injured and taken to hospital. He died during treatment," said the statement.
Vikas Dubey, on the run since he organised the massacre of eight policemen in Kanpur last Friday, was arrested yesterday at a temple in Ujjain, Madhya Pradesh.
Hours before Dubey's encounter, a plea was filed in the Supreme Court last night seeking security for the gangster. The petitioner had claimed the gangster may be killed in an encounter.
