Dubey’s run of 5 states & 1500km ends with Ujjain temple arrest

UJJAIN/INDORE: Dodging police in four states, fugitive UP gangster Vikas Dubey on Thursday surfaced unarmed at Ujjain’s famed Mahakaal temple and did a darshan along with other unsuspecting devotees before he was spotted on CCTV, “identified” by a man selling puja items and arrested by MP police to end a six-day hunt following the killing of eight UP police personnel in a Maoist-style ambush by his gang.

In the evening, the UP Special Task Force took custody of Dubey from MP police without producing him in court for transit remand. Ujjain SP Manoj Kumar Singh said the UP police had left the city with Dubey and would produce him in court there within 24 hours. “We have provided a police escort to the team after exchanging custody.”

For a most-wanted man with a reward of Rs 5 lakh on his head, Dubey seemingly didn’t try too hard to conceal his identity. He turned up at the temple wit