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After a rather infamous free run in the crime world, the walls are seemingly crumbling around Chaubepur police carnage prime accused Vikas Dubey.
His escapades and brush with the law may have earned him infamy and fear but a recent kidnapping and attempted murder landed him in the soup that he presently is in.
In the beginning of the week, Rahul Tiwary of Kanpur lodged the report against Dubey. On Wednesday evening, SHO Chaubepur along with the complainant went to Dubey’s house in this regard.
Ironically, the unharnessed Dubey severely beat up Rahul even as the SHO tried to pull him away. After thrashing Rahul to the hilt, Dubey hurled numerous expletives at the SHO for his temerity to come to his house and question him for the crime.
This was the coup de grace for the brigand. The browbeaten SHO intimated his seniors after which a raid in the early hours of Friday was planned, engaging force from three police stations — Chaubepur, Shivrajpur and Bitthoor — that went awry for the men in khaki.
After the mindless killings of eight police personnel, Vikas and his cohorts fled the scene. But within hours, two of his kin, maternal  uncle Prem Prakash Pandey and cousin Atul Dubey, were gunned down in separate encounters with tailing police parties.
Even the dreaded strongman is not out of the police radar and electronic surveillance. A team, adept in electronic surveillance has been on his tail since 3 am on Friday.
Dubey’s last location was observed at Jhinjhak area of  Kanpur Dehat bordering Auraiya district. Thereafter, his cell  phone was found switched off but all districts adjoining Kanpur had started massive checking and combing operations. It is hence only a matter of time before Dubey lands in the police net or falls to a police bullet, if he opts for adventurism.