Claims of Rs 500 cr property fake, family left in lurch: Vikas Dubey’s wife

1. Richa Dubey also claimed that she had tried to convince her husband to leave crime world, but “he was a man of a different mentality”
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4. Wife of slain gangster Vikas Dubey on Thursday said that she had unsuccessfully tried to convince her husband to leave the path of crime. She said that the family has been left in the lurch after gangster’s death. About the claim that Dubey had acquired property worth crores of rupees, she said it was “fake news” and that her husband has left the family to fend for themselves. “Today, we terribly needed him. He has left nothing for us. People may say that he has left a property worth Rs 500 crore, but the truth is that I do not have anything,” the gangster’s wife Richa Dubey told a TV news channel.
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6. To a question that Dubey has properties worth crores at a number of places, even in Dubai, she said, “This is absolutely fake news. Just think, if a person has property worth crores, will his wife live in a 1,600 square feet house in Lucknow?” Richa Dubey also claimed that she had tried to convince her husband to leave crime, but he was a man of a different mentality.
7. “He was a good husband, and good father. He wanted that his children should become well-educated, but he himself never wanted to come out of the world of crime,” the wife of the slain gangster said. She said that whenever she tried to convince her husband about leaving the path of crime, he used to beat her.

Vikas Dubey killed; cops say gangster shot at them and tried to flee

Vikas Dubey and his gang shot dead 8 policemen who had come to arrest him near Kanpur village last week

Gangster Vikas Dubey, accused of killing eight policemen in a shootout last week, was shot dead Friday morning when he tried to break free while being taken in a convoy to Kanpur in Uttar Pradesh from Madhya Pradesh’s Ujjain city, where he was arrested on Thursday. “Dubey was killed in encounter when he tried to flee after a road accident,” Mohit Agarwal, Kanpur’s Inspector General of Police, told news agencies. The incident took place between Jhansi and Kanpur, The Indian Express reported.

A vehicle carrying Dubey, whose age is unknown, in the UP Police’s Special Task Force’s (STF) convoy overturned after skidding on a highway slippery after rains. Vikas Dubey allegedly snatched a pistol when he was taken out of the upturned vehicle and tried to fire at the police. He was killed in retaliatory firing and two STF personnel were injured, reported news agency IANS.

Visuals after the incident showed Dubey being taken away on a stretcher to the emergency ward of the Hallett Hospital in Kanpur. Dinesh Kumar, a senior police officer in Kanpur, said the hospital’s doctors confirmed Dubey’s death.

Kanpur encounter case: Main accused Vikas Dubey arrested in Ujjain

Dubey's two aides are killed in separate encounters in Uttar Pradesh on Thursday

Vikas Dubey, the main accused in the Kanpur encounter case, was arrested in Ujjain on Thursday. The arrest comes days after an inter-state operation was launched following a raid in which eight policemen were killed when they reached Dubey's house to arrest him.Vikas Dubey was carrying a bounty of Rs 500,000 on his head.Meanwhile, Dubey's two aides were killed in separate encounters in Uttar Pradesh on Thursday, police said. While Kartikeya alias Prabhat was gunned down in Kanpur when he tried to flee from police custody, another aide of Vikas Dubey, Praveen alias Bauwa Dubey, was killed in an encounter in Etawah, they added.

Kartikeya, who was arrested from Faridabad on Wednesday, was being brought to Kanpur on transit remand when he snatched the pistol of a policeman and tried to flee, ADG, Law and Order Prashant Kumar said."The encounter took place in the Panki area of Kanpur when a police team was bringing Kartikeya alias Prabhat to Kanpur from Faridabad on transit remand.

The police vehicle had a flat tyre. Taking advantage of the situation, Kartikeya tried to flee after snatching the pistol of a policeman," he said.Kartikeya opened fire at the policemen accompanying him, injuring two Special Task Force (STF) personnel, and was killed in the ensuing exchange of fire, the officer said. The policemen fired at him "in self-defence", he added...