Bikru probe: ED, SIT await info on don, aides’ assets

LUCKNOW: The Enforcement Directorate (ED) and special investigation team (SIT), which are probing the Bikru ambush which claimed the lives of eight policemen, are waiting for the details of properties amassed by gangster Vikas Dubey and his 56 associates, including 19 family members, to carry out further investigations.
Last week, ED and SIT had shot off letters to development authorities in Kanpur, Kanpur Dehat, Ghaziabad, Gautam Budh Nagar and Lucknow seeking details of all contracts bagged by Dubey or even those proposed by him.
“We have also asked for details of commercial complex owned by Dubey and his associates,” an officer privy to the investigation said.
“We will only be able to start investigations once documents related to Dubey’s properties are made available to us,” he said.
According to sources, records of Dubey and and his financier Jaikant Bajpai have been found at Kanpur Development Authority (KDA) so far. The documents are being scrutinized before being handed over to the agencies for further probe.
A senior officer said letters were also sent to chief executive officers of Greater Noida Industrial Development Authority, New Okhla Industrial Development Authority and Yamuna Expressway Industrial Authority.
So far, details of arms and licences of Dubey’s kin and associates have been made available to the agencies by the Kanpur Nagar police. It includes 28 licences issued to 26 people.
On July 6, ED wrote to inspector general, Kanpur range, Mohit Agarwal and sought details from district police on the gangster and his aides.
Dubey and five of his gang members were killed in separate police encounters between July 3 and July 10 while 15 others have been arrested so far.
The don was gunned down in an encounter when he reportedly tried to flee from police custody while being brought to Kanpur on July 10.