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Missing Bikru witness tracked

Sentinel Digital Desk

Manu, wife of gangster Vikas Dubey's aide Shashikant Dubey, who had gone missing two days ago, was finally found living at her parents' home in Balolpur village along with her two minor children. Manu is one of the eye-witnesses of the July 3 ambush in Bikru village in which eight policemen were killed. Manu's father-in-law, Prem Kumar Pandey, was gunned down by the police, barely three hours after the massacre. Her husband Shashikant was also arrested and sent to jail. Police had stated that Prem Kumar Pandey was one of the assailants and Dubey's accomplice. Pandey's house is located a few metres from Dubey's now demolished house. An audio clip of Manu talking to a woman-purportedly VikasDubey's sister-in-law — about the carnage had gone viral on the social media. "Manu had gone to her parents' house. We have deployed security personnel outside her parents' house now because she is a witness in the Bikru carnage," SP (Rural) BrijeshShrivastava said on Thursday. (IANS)