At least eight police personnel, including Deputy SP Devendra Mishra, were killed and six were injured after they were fired upon by criminals in Kanpur on Thursday night. According to reports, the police were ambushed when a team had gone to raid an area in search of a notorious gangster Vikas Dubey. The raid was carried out at around 1 am on the intervening night of July 2-3 in Bithoor area in Chaubepur in Kanpur. Gangster Dubey has over 60 cases against him, including a murder charge for the killing of Santosh Shukla, a former UP minister in the Rajnath Singh government, inside a police station in 2001. As the police party reached the Bikru village under Kanpur Dehat’s Shivli Police Station area to make the arrest, at least eight to ten criminals opened indiscriminate fire from the rooftops. Shivrajpur Station Officer Mahesh Yadav, a sub-inspector and five constables were the others killed in the attack. Among the deceased included 1 DSP, 3 Sub-Inspector, and 4 constables. “STF has been deployed. IG/STF is reaching the spot. Kanpur STF is already at work. A large scale operation is being carried out”, said HC Awasthi, DGP. UP ADG, Law & Order Reached … Continue reading Eight police personnel, including Deputy SP killed, six injured