Agra, June 20 -- A reward-carrying, habitual offender, was shot dead in an encounter with the Firozabad police on Friday.

Identified as Raju Khan, the accused was carrying a reward of Rs.50,000 and was named in cases of loot and murder. He used to target aged couples in villages, sleeping outside their houses.

Saurabh Dixit, senior superintendent of police (SSP), said that five teams were constituted after a pattern was witnessed in crimes of loot and murder wherein aged couples sleeping outside their houses in Firozabad were being targeted.

"After visualising and analysing about 200 CCTV footages, police zeroed in on Raju Khan, a resident of Shahganj area in Agra, who used to buy a bus ticket from Agra to travel to Firozabad and used ...