The intriguing story of Vikas Dubey's encounter, First covered by TV 9 Bharatvarsh reporter Manish Yadav.

Manish Yadav

A News reporter is a medium to convey news to us. But their job is not easy. TV9 Bharatvarsh reporter manish yadav is one of the combative reporters. He started his career with Sahara Samay. After serving in Rajasthan he came to Uttar Pradesh. He has covered many important events in UP. One of his reports which is often discussed is a report based on the encounter of Vikas Dubey. Manish Yadav was the first to inform the country about Vikas Dubey's encounter through his TV channel TV 9 Bharatvarsh. Since the incident of Bikru case on July 3, Manish was continuously reporting all the details of the case while staying in Kanpur.

In the Bikru case, 8 policemen were killed simultaneously that took the discussion of the matter across the country. Up government was in a constant pressure to captureVikas Dubey. Vikas Dubey's uncle Prem Prakash Pandey and Atul Dubey were killed by the police the very next day after the killing of the policemen. The police had declared a reward of five lakh rupees on Vikas Dubey. Amar Dubey, an associate of Dubey, was killed during an encounter. On the second day, Prabhat Mishra, another associate of Vikas Dubey, was also killed in an encounter. On July 9, 2020, the police arrested another close friend of gangster Vikas Dubey, Ranbir or Babban Shukla, in Etawah who was killed during the encounter.

Although 5 companions of Vikas were captured but Vikas Dubey proved to be a more difficult challenge to be faced. Senior police officers had camped in Kanpur, Delhi, MP, Rajasthan, every single strategy was being worked out seriously. But the police was not able to reach the main gangster. An information about the capture of Vikas Dubey by the security of Ujjain,MP was delivered. MP's Home Minister Narottam Mishra also confirmed this news.Information was shared with the UP government and the main task of shifting Vikash Dubey to UP started. It took an entire day's effort amidst tight security for MP Police to hand over Vikas Dubey to the UP Police at the MP border.

The encounter of 5 companions of Vikas Dubey thrusted more pressure on the police and being known about the anger of Vikas Dubey at the death of his companions, there was a possibility of an encounter of Vikas in everyone's mind. Therefore, many media vehicles followed the convoy of STF starting from the arrest of Vikas till his departure from MP.

TV9 Bharatvarsh correspondent Manish Yadav was covering the entire matter from day one.Manish Yadav prepared an exclusive report on Vikas Dubey which included the conversation with the family members of Vikas, the diary of the old case of Vikas and the confusion of police raid theory. On 9th of July, Manish Yadav was behind Vikas Dubey's convoy from Jhansi. There was a convoy of 3 vehicles, one car was escorting the second car Safari in which Vikas Dubey was sitting and the third Mahindra TUV car which was following at the back. After crossing Jhansi Auraiya and Kanpur countryside, Manish Yadav became absolutely sure that there was no hance of encounter any more.

But at the toll plaza of Kanpur,the car of many media personnel including Manish was stopped.The situations became intense and it seemed as if something very wrong was going to happen. When the police started checking they didn't even allow the vehicles of the media personnel to leave. Manish and his accompanying cameraman Shailendra Pathak, sensing the situation, removed the car from the toll and drove the car through the village below and saw an overturned car from a distnace of few kilometers.

That scene vividly claimed that Vikash Dubey had already been encountered. Manish immediately covered this matter as an exclusive breaking news on his channel. STF personnel present on the spot were not giving any information. How the car overturned, what happened to the people sitting in the car were very important questions for which it was necessary to find answers immediately. When Manish started his query he came upon an important information that Vikas Dubey was killed. Manish already busy on another phone with this news immediately took Shailendra Pathak's phone and informed in Noida about the encounter of Vikas Dubey . Manish was asked if he was sure about the news of Vikas's encounter because no channel was displaying such news at that time. Manish insisted that he was absolutely sure and this news should be broadcasted immediately.

TV 9 Bharatvarsh was the first channel to display this break news of Vikas Dubey's encounter. People across the country, who were eagerly waiting for this news, came to know that the case of Vikas Dubey finally ended at his death, through TV 9 Bharatvarsh. Till then, only the news of Vikas's convoy accident was being shown on the rest of the channel.

Vikas Dubey was that criminal mind who took advantage of the drawbacks in our system for meetinng his vicious ends, and gradually became a known face of terror and crime.