LUCKNOW: At least 10 news channel crews were following the heavily
armed STF convoy carrying
Vikas Dubey soon after it entered UP at
Aith toll plaza in
Jalaun district.
However, as the convoy reached Barajod toll plaza near Kanpur at around 6.30 am, all other vehicles were stopped. They were told that it was for routine checking of papers.
Barely 15 minutes later, news spread that Dubey had been shot as an
STF vehicle carrying him had overturned and he had opened fire after snatching the weapon of a constable.
Mediapersons on the spot raised the issue and alleged that they had been deliberately stopped as the enounter killing had been pre-planned.
IGP (Kanpur Range) Mohit Agarwal, however, told TOI: "We received inputs from the team that a fleet of 60 vehicles was following their convoy from Ujjain. It was dangerous as local intelligence inputs had also expressed some apprehensions of foul play," said Agarwal.
So it became important for us to check the vehicles, he said. "In that critical phase also we ensured that vehicles with proper documents and credentials were allowed to go," he added.