Kanpur: Kilkil Sachan, who runs a coaching institute in Kakadeo area in Kanpur, has been arrested from his apartment in Keshavpuram area of the city in connection with objectionable posts on social media.
Sachan had made a post on the social media applauding and glorifying criminal, Vikas Dubey, as a ‘lion’ for killing eight policemen in Bikru village of the district on Friday.
The tweets have now been deleted.
Police are carrying our searches for another accused, identified as Rita Pandey.
Superintendent of Police, South, Aparna Gupta said that Sachan was being questioned and would be booked under relevant sections of the IPC and IT Acts.
Meanwhile, sources said that Sachan was close to Vikas Dubey and it was under the latter’s patronage that his coaching centre flourished.
Vikas Dubey, till Friday, was just another name in the underworld of Uttar Pradesh. His ‘stature’ remained largely unknown to the people of the state even though he had heinous crime registered against his name. He was a quiet operator and, therefore, did not figure in the list of known mafias of the state.
Dubey, in his early fifties, hit the headlines first in 2001 when he killed BJP leader Santosh Shukla inside the Shivli police station in Kanpur. Shukla was minister of state in the UP government when he was killed. However, Dubey was later acquitted by a session court for want of evidence against him. As per the reports, even policemen had refused to testify against him in the court.
Dubey is also accused of planning his cousin brother Anurag’s murder while being inside Mati jail in 2018. He was one of the four accused named by Anurag’s wife. After this, he chose the path of crime that would, one day, take him closer to politics.
–IANS
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