Suspended Chaubeypur SHO, SI arrested for fleeing encounter site

Kanpur: After the complete staff including 68 police constables were shunted to Police Lines from Chaubeypur police station on Tuesday, suspended Chaubeypur station house officer (SHO) Vinay Tiwari and a sub-inspector were arrested on Wednesday on charges of fleeing the encounter site in Bikru village wherein eight policemen were trapped and killed by gangster Vikas Dubey and his 60 aides.
The action comes in the wake of evidences emerging that many of the policemen were hand-in-glove with the gangster.
“Vinay Tiwari and beat in-charge of Bikru K K Sharma, who were suspended soon after the encounter, have been arrested on charges of fleeing the encounter site and putting the lives of other policemen in danger,” senior superintendent of police (Kanpur) Dinesh Kumar Prabhu said.
Both the suspended SHO and sub-inspector were detained for questioning and later arrested, he said.
“An FIR in this regard has been registered at the Chaubeypur police station against Tiwari and Sharma for allegedly fleeing the encounter site,” said a senior police official.
It also came to fore during preliminary findings that both the SIs allegedly tipped off gangster Vikas about the police raid, he added.
“SHO Vinay Tiwari and SI KK Sharma have been subsequently taken into custody and interrogated by sleuths of STF as their allegiance with gangster was established during the preliminary round of investigations and probe in this regard is still continuing,” said an STF official.
To recall, the slian deputy SP Devendra Mishra had written a letter to the then SSP Anant Deo, exposing SHO Vinay Tiwari’s nexus with gangster Vikas Dubey and that went viral on Monday. In the letter, Mishra had sought action against SHO of Chaubeypur police station, Kanpur, Vinay Tiwari but Anant Deo Tewari had allegedly ignored the complaint. The latter was originally recovered from officers suitcase during scrutiny of documents after his death allegedly by his elder daughter Vaishnavi.
Later, DIF STF Anant Deo Tewari was transferred from his present post after a controversial letter of slain Dy SP Devendra Mishra surfaced.Vinay Tewari was earlier suspended, allegedly for passing on information about the police raid on Vikas Dubey’s house. Two more sub-inspectors including KK Sharma and a constable were also suspended.