LUCKNOW, March 23 -- Auto driver and history-sheeter Ajay Kumar, 26, who was killed in a police encounter on Friday evening after he killed a woman from Ayodhya in Malihabad on March 19 following a rape bid, and his brother Dinesh Kumar, 35, a co-accused who is in police custody, continued to have a free run for around a decade.

During this period, several cases were lodged against them. However, they continued committing crime before the police acted against them after the shocking Malihabad incident. Also, despite being criminals, they managed to drive e-autorickshaw.

This happened even as after the formation of Lucknow Police Commissionerate in 2020, police started banishing criminals (externment in legal context) from the district f...