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A bounty of Rs 2.5 lakh has been announced on Uttar Pradesh’s most wanted gangster Vikas Dubey after he and his goons reportedly killed eight policemen in a shoot-out in Kanpur. The criminal has been on the run ever since.
Eight policemen, including a DSP, were killed in a shoot-out on Friday, 3 July. The police team had gone in search of Dubey, when he and his operatives fired indiscriminately on the police party.
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Many more notorious criminals like him have been absconding for decades in UP. Here are 19 other criminals on UP Police's most wanted list:
- Harish: Bounty of Rs 2,00,000. Terrorised West UP. Charges of murder, extortion among others against him.
- Ata-ur-Rehman AKA Sikandar: Bounty of Rs 2,00,000. Accused of killing BJP MLA Krishnanand Rai in 2005.
- Monu Gurjar: Bounty of Rs 50,000. Involved in cases of loot, robbery, abduction, and murder.
- Gauri Yadav AKA Udaybhan Yadav: Bounty of Rs 1,00,000.
- Shahbuddin: Bounty of Rs 2,00,000. Reportedly close to MLA Mukhtar Ansari. Wanted for 15 years.
- Sunil Yadav: Bounty of Rs 50,000. Accused of killing deputy jailor of Varanasi Anil Tyagi.
- Vinod Kumar: Bounty of Rs 50,000.
- Salim AKA Mukhtar Sheikh: Bounty of Rs 50,000.
- Sanjeeb Nal: Bounty of Rs 50,000.
- Sudhir AKA Mahkar Singh: Bounty of Rs 50,000.
- Ramnaresh Thakur: Bounty of Rs 50,000.
- Vishwas Nepali: Bounty of Rs 50,000.
- Azeem Ahmed: Bounty of Rs 50,000.
- Manish Singh: Bounty of Rs 50,000.
- Bahar AKA Baharuddin: Bounty of Rs 50,000.
- Pintu AKA Rudresh Upadhyay: Bounty of Rs 50,000.
- Aftab Alam: Bounty of Rs 50,000.
- Shiva Bind AKA Shivshankar Bind: Bounty of Rs 50,000.
- Saud Ahmed Siddiqui: Bounty of Rs 50,000.
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