At any rate, eight police personnel of Uttar Pradesh Police, including a delegated administrator of police, were killed in an encounter with hoodlums in Kanpur in the extremely early hours of Friday, police said on Friday. Four police faculty who were harmed in the experience are being treated at a clinic.
The experience occurred when the police group drew nearer to capture Vikas Dubey, a history-sheeter confronting 60 criminal cases, in Dikru town under Chaubepur police headquarters on the mediating night of Thursday and Friday, police said.
An examination concerning the Kanpur experience case has commenced.
As the police group was going to arrive at the nook of the feared criminal, a hail of slugs was showered on them from a structure housetop, leaving Deputy SP Devendra Mishra, three sub-examiners and four constables dead, authorities said.
Giving subtleties of the occurrence, Uttar Pradesh Director General of Police HC Awasthi said the infamous criminal might have a notion of the approaching strike.
He and his associates set up huge detours to keep the police staff from continuing towards their refuge. As the police group was unprepared, the lawbreakers terminated at them from a structure housetop prompting the passings, Awasthi said.
From the sources 3 criminals were killed in an encounter with the police.
Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath gave tributes to the killed policemen and carried his sincere condolences to their family members. He also said strict action must be taken against the criminals.
