UP Cop, Accused Of Helping Gangster-On-Run Vikas Dubey, Arrested

Vinay Tiwari was in charge of the police station near Vikas Dubey's village in Kanpur and had allegedly watered down charges against him in earlier cases.

Suspended Uttar Pradesh police inspector Vinay Tiwari, accused of tipping off gangster Vikas Dubey to a raid last week that turned into a massacre in which eight policemen were killed, was arrested today.

Vinay Tiwari was in charge of the Chaubeypur police station with jurisdiction over Vikas Dubey's village in Kanpur and had allegedly watered down charges against him in earlier cases.

"We have made the arrests after a lot of evidence collection. If anyone attacks the police or prevents us from working or conspires to get a policeman attacked, we will take action even if it is a fellow cop," said Dinesh Kumar P, Kanpur police chief.

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V. Rajaram vs State Represented By The ... on 26 November, 2019

The appellant has been convicted for the offences punishable under Sections 217 IPC and 221 IPC.

At the relevant time, the appellant was the Deputy Superintendent of Police of the jurisdictional Division.

The allegation against the appellant is that he disobeyed the laws with intention to save the accused from legal punishment and also intentionally allowed the accused to escape from the place of occurrence.

Therefore, he is charged for the offences punishable under Sections 217 IPC and 221 IPC

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