 LUCKNOW — In a major breakthrough, dreaded criminal and Dawood Ibrahim's front man in the industrial city of Kanpur, Taufiq alias Billu has been gunned down in an encounter with the police and the Special Task Force personnel, while two of his accomplices managed to escape from the scene.
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Their Maruti Zen car was recovered by the police. The slain criminal, along with his five brothers, was active in the crime world for the past over two decades. He was carrying a cash reward of Rs20,000 fixed by the Director-General of Police, Uttar Pradesh, on his arrest. In all, 46, criminal cases were lodged against the deceased, including the one lodged for the killing of a Special Task Force constable, Dharmendra, recently. Sources in the Police headquarters here said that Kanpur Senior Superintendent of Police Ramendra Vikram Singh had recommended one rank promotion and a cash prize for the police and the Special Task Force team members for the commendable work down by them. Singh said that Atiq, one of the brothers of Taufiq alias Billu, and a member of the Dawood Ibrahim gang, was the vice-president of Bahujan Samaj Party's local unit about three years ago and during the party's regime in the state, he had connections with its two ministers. Other gang members included Rafiq, Iqbal alias Bale, Shafiq, Afzal alias Raju (all brothers of Taufiq), Laiq Kalia and BJP leader Virendra Dube. |