Gangster Vikas Dubey's aide Jaykant Vajpayee and latter's friend Prashant Shukla were arrested for their involvement in Kanpur encounter where eight Police personnel had lost their lives.
According to news agency ANI, an FIR has been registered against them under multiple sections of the IPC, Criminal Law Amendment Act and Arms Act.
Vikas Dubey was arrested from the Mahakaal temple in Madhya Pradesh's Ujjain on July 9. Later, on July 10, while he was being brought to Kanpur form Ujjain, the vehicle in which he was being taken, reportedly overturned and Dubey tried to flee after snatching the firearm of a policeman.
When the police asked Dubey to surrender, he started firing at the police, leading to a gun battle that finally killed the gangster in the cross-firing. The Uttar Pradesh government later formed an one-member judicial commission, under retired Justice S.K. Aggarwal, to probe the encounter after the opposition claimed that the gangster was killed in a 'fake encounter' to protect the identity of his political masters.
