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Vikas Dubey, the history-sheeter accused of shooting dead eight policemen in Kanpur’s Bikru village last week, was on Friday morning killed in an alleged exchange of fire while being brought to Uttar Pradesh from Ujjain, the U.P. police said.

Dubey was shot twice after he purportedly endeavored to escape from police guardianship in the wake of shooting at the police group, a couple of kilometers in front of Kanpur, police said. Nonetheless, a clinical report is as yet anticipated.

Dubey was being accompanied to Kanpur from Ujjain, where he was captured 24 hours sooner close to a sanctuary, when one of the police vehicles toppled close Bhaunti, said police. The denounced and the policemen got harmed in the mishap, they included.

Kanpur SP (West) Anil Kumar said Dubey exploited the street mishap and attempted to escape in the wake of grabbing a gun of a harmed policeman. “The police encompassed him from each of the four sides and attempted to make him give up, yet he terminated at them. In self-protection, police discharged two projectiles [at Dubey], harming him,” said Mr. Kumar.

Dubey had terminated at the police group with a “goal to execute,” said police.

A cot bearing Dubey, with bloodstains on his chest, was later observed being taken inside an emergency clinic, where he was proclaimed dead.

Dubey passed on in emergency clinic during treatment, said UP ADG Law and Order Prashant Kumar, referring to a Kanpur police report.

SSP (Kanpur) P. Dinesh Kumar told columnists at the site of the episode that four policemen going with Dubey got wounds. He included that he had no data with respect to why vehicles of media staff trailing the vehicle in which Dubey was taken were halted.

Without straightforwardly alluding to Dubey, Samajwadi Party president Akhilesh Yadav composed on Twitter: “The vehicle hasn’t toppled however the legislature has been spared from being upset on account of privileged insights.”

The police had recently shot dead five associates and accessories of Dubey in discrete occurrences of supposed trade of shoot since the trap on the mediating night of July 2 and 3. One of them, Prabhat, was shot dead while supposedly attempting to escape from police care while in transit to U.P. from Faridabad in Haryana under travel remand on Thursday.

Dubey, on the run since the assault on the policemen, was captured close to the Mahakal sanctuary in Ujjain on Thursday.

“He was given over to the U.P. police, who took him to their State by street,” an M.P. police official said.

Dubey, who faces 60 criminal cases, conveyed an award of ₹5 lakh on his head at the hour of his passing. His passing comes hours after his significant other Richa, a Zilla panchayat part, was gotten by police in Lucknow and taken to Kanpur for addressing with respect to the snare in Bikru.