Lucknow, July 14 -- In a surprise move, DGP Harish Chandra Awasthi reportedly stopped IG (Civil Defence) Amitabh Thakur and his social activist wife Nutan Thakur from visiting Bhauti area of Kanpur, where Bikru village carnage mastermind Vikas Dubey was killed in an encounter with the STF last Friday.
The Thakurs were on way to Bhauti and also had plans to visit Dubey's native village at Bikru, where the eight Kanpur police officers and personnel were trapped and fatally ambushed, when they were asked by the DGP to return to Lucknow.
Reacting to the development, Nutan Thakur said that her husband Amitabh, who is posted as IG (Civil Defence), was called by the DGP back to Lucknow, saying that he could not visit the spot. She said that they...