Kanpur Police has revealed that history-sheeter Vikas Dubey had a bunker in his house which he used to store weapons and explosives.

Meanwhile, the police have so far identified 21 accomplices of history sheeter Vikas Dubey who were involved in the killing of eight police personnel in an ambush in Bikru village under Chaubepur police station of Kanpur on Friday.

One of them, identified as Daya Shanker Agnihotri alias Kalloo, was arrested by the Kalyanpur police in an encounter late Saturday night. During the exchange of fire, Kalloo sustained bullet injury and was admitted to hospital in police custody. After the Bikru village ambush, he was absconding and was present in Kalyanpur police area.

Kalloo is a close aide of Dubey, who now has been included in the list of most wanted criminals of the state. Kaloo reportedly helped Dubey  in matters of disputed lands. He is involved in three criminal cases registered against him at Kalyanpur police station, two for attempts to murder, and one under the Arms Act.

On a tip-off, the Kalyanpur police raided a place near Jawaharpuram Pulia late Saturday night and cornered Kalloo. After an exchange of fire, he was arrested. Senior Superintendent of Police Dinesh Kumar P said Kalloo was being quizzed to gather information about Dubey.

During interrogation by STF sleuths, Kalloo disclosed that as Dubey had information about police raid in advance, he had called armed shooters from other places. He said Dubey had snatched his licensed gun to fire on the police party. Kalloo is reported to be the husband of Dubey’s maid Rekha.

ADG Zone JN Singh said the amount of cash reward on Dubey had been increased to Rs 1 lakh.

IG Range Mohit Agarwal said after the mass killing of police personnel, police had lodged named FIR against Dubey and his 10 accomplices and 60-70 unidentified persons under different sections of the Indian Penal Code.

After the killing of the police personnel in Bikru village, the police had gunned down two of the assailants named in the FIR — Atul Dubey and Prem Kumar Pandey — in an encounter with them.

The IG said police had identified 11 other criminals involved in the attack on the police party. He said thus, 21 criminals were found to be involved in the attack and two of them had been gunned down. On the rest 18 criminals, police have announced cash reward of Rs 25,000 each, the IG added.

They include Shyamu Bajpai, Chhotu Shukla of Kanjati village, Monu (JCB driver), Jahan Yadav son of Santram, Daya Shanker Agnihotri (arrested on Saturday night), Shashi Kant Pandit son of Prem Kant, Shiv Tewari son of Dinesh, Vishnu Pal Yadav of Sujja Nevada, Ram Singh son of Chhotelal of Madaripurwa village, Ramu Bajpai son of Radhey Shyam, Amar Dubey son of Sanjiv, Prabhat Misra son of Rajendra, Gopal Saini son of Ramadhar, Biru Dubey son of Ramesh Chandra of Bikru (Chaubepur), Bauwan Shukla son of Mool Chandra, Shivam Dubey son of Bal Govind, Bal Govind son of Mewa Lal and Bauwa Dubey son of Monti.