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UP: Abandoned SUV in Auraiya with a Dubey coincidence helped bust fake kidnap plot

LUCKNOW: An abandoned car on a highway near Auraiya, 48 hours after the Bikru ambush had sent alarm bells ringing in police control room over the possibility of it being the getaway vehicle of gangster Vikas Dubey . A blood-soaked handkerchief and the surname Dubey in registration documents stashed in the car’s dashboard gave grist to rumour mills about the don trying to fox cops by hitch-hiking his way to a safer hideout.

But the spotlight on the dark grey car with a Dubey coincidence helped cops unearth a sinister plan by its owner and Lucknow businessman Amit Dubey, to fake his abduction to skirt repaying Rs 78 lakh loan.

Dubey, who was arrested by Auraiya police, was found possessing a sub-inspector’s identity card, which he used to threaten his business rivals. Amit had in fact faked his kidnapping and abandoned his dark grey SUV near Auraiya-Dibiyapur bypass near the highway on July 5, when Vikas Dubey was on the run with aides.

Since the documents recovered from the car, bearing Lucknow registration number, showed it belonged to an Amit Dubey, cops assumed he might have links with the gangster. Superintendent of police, Auraiya, Suniti told TOI, “We checked the ID of sub-inspector and found he’s now posted as inspector in Faizabad district. We summoned him, but did not get positive response. We will write to SSP Faizabad now,” she said. Dubey claimed to be founder of Bharatiya Hindu Sangathan party.

Crime branch sleuths of Auraiya police interrogated Amit Dubey and said he used the ID card of sub-inspector to threaten rivals.

“Dubey used the ID card to not pay toll tax and bully a petrol pump owner to refill engine oil for free,” further said the officer.

Auraiya police checked financial dealings of Dubey and found he had taken Rs 40 lakh from Dr S S Thakur, Rs 15 lakh from one Bhupendra Singh, both of Jalaun, Rs 3 lakh from Mohit Shukla and Rs 8 lakh from Satyanarayan, both of Kanpur Nagar.

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