LUCKNOW: A day after the arrest of
slain ganglord Vikas Dubey’s aide
Ram Singh Yadav, the gram pradhan of Madaripurwa,
Uttar Pradesh Special Task Force (UPSTF) officials said he fired at the police team and was then assigned the task of collecting the bodies of massacred cops and setting them afire.
STF had arrested Yadav, who was carrying cash reward of Rs 50,000 on his head, near a clinic under Akbarpur police station in Kanpur Dehat on Sunday night.
Additional superintendent of police, STF,
Vishal Vikram Singh, whose team had nabbed Yadav and recovered his double barrel gun from which over 50 rounds were fired during the July 2 ambush in Bikru village, said
“During interrogation, Yadav also confessed that he was told by gangster Vikas Dubey to collect the bodies of all the cops killed during ambush and set them afire.”