kanpur gangster vikas dubey used his scheming mind to exploit government resources and built an army of supporters and an intricate network of informers to give a slip to cops whenever they snooped down to snare him dubey had used more than rs 12 lakh from government fund released for rcc road for constructing a secret foot overbridge over pandu river when his wife richa was member of district panchayatsoon after killing eight policemen in the ambush dubey had used the same secret foot overbridge to cross pandu river that divides kanpur nagar from kanpur dehat to reach shivli where he stayed put undetected for 48 hours while over 50 police teams scoured up and neighbouring states to nab himvillagers said dubey had constructed several hideouts including a bunker and escape routes in his house in bikru villagethere were several secret exits besides a bunker which he used to evade arrest whenever police came to arrest him said a villager preferring anonymityit was common belief among locals that its impossible to arrest vikas from his fortresslike residencepolice came several times over the years to arrest him from his house but always went emptyhanded every time police came he got prior information and escaped using secret exits specially built for the purpose said a village elderlyhe also had a strong information network and an army of loyalists who even blocked the path of police teams in devious fashion to give dubey time to escapethere were some escape routes in his house there was also a secret foot overbridge over pandu river said a police officialafter the murder of minister santosh shukla in 2001 when cops went to bikru village to arrest vikas they could not find him he later surrenderedeven this time while we were checking all approach roads connecting his village and combing the region he escaped through the secret overbridge said billhaur inspector santosh awasthiwatch vikas dubey encounter how the gangster used a secret escape route to evade cops on july 3