Gwalior: Uttar Pradesh police teams raided hotels here in search of the state's most wanted gangster Vikas Dubey and the main accused in the killing of eight policemen last week in Kanpur district, sources said.
They said the UP police teams, after receiving information that the gangster may be hiding in Gwalior, reached here and raided many hotels of the city.
Local police, however, did not make any comment on the situation.
It is learnt that the STF and the Special Cell of the UP police personnel, who were fully armed, raided the hotels but he was not there.
Meanwhile, the Yogi Adityanath government has increased the reward on the gangster to Rs 5 lakh. The state government has been increasing the reward on the gangster who is responsible for the killing of eight policemen in Kanpur on July 3, from the initial Rs 50,000 to Rs 1 lakh which was then increased to Rs 2.5 lakhs and now Rs 5 lakh.
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More than 60 police teams are searching for the gangster and several of his hideouts have been raided. One of his accomplices Amar Dubey was shot dead in an encounter on Wednesday morning in Hamirpur district, while another accomplice, Shyamu Bajpai, was arrested in Kanpur after a brief encounter.
His aides have also been arrested from Faridabad in Haryana where the gangster was reportedly present on Tuesday.
