LUCKNOW: Neither equipped with any arms or ammunition nor anticipating that they would face an “encounter-like” situation in Kanpur’s Bikhru village, police personnel headed unprepared towards the trap laid by gangster Vikas Dubey at his mansion, said a policeman who survived the ambush in which eight of his colleagues were killed.
Speaking to reporters, Kaushalendra Pratap Singh, the station officer of Bithoor police station in Kanpur district who was injured in the savage attack on a police team, recalled the events of the intervening night of Thursday-Friday that unfolded like a gangster film.
“Dubey’s men were fully prepared. Each of them had weapons. They were using semi-automatic weapons. In single shot weapons there is a time gap between two shots,” he said, adding that there were at least 15-20 people firing at the police team.
“On the other hand, all of us did not have ‘aslaahaa’ (arms and ammunition),” Singh