Daya Shankar Agnihotri, another accused in the Bikaru case of Kanpur, has been sentenced to three years of local imprisonment. Dayashankar was a servant of Vikas Dubey. After the Bikaru incident, when the district administration team went to shift Daya Shankar’s ration shop, they found seven crude bombs in a sack during the investigation. Chaubepur police had filed a case against Dayashankar under the Explosives Act. The hearing of the case was going on in the anti-robbery court. The court found the accused Dayashankar guilty in the case and sentenced him to three years imprisonment. In fact, on July 2, 2020, in Bikaru village of Chaubepur police station area of Kanpur, gangster Vikas Dubey and his gang attacked the team that had come to raid. The gang surrounded the police from all sides and opened fire on the police so much that 8 police personnel including the Deputy SP died on the spot. While many police personnel were seriously injured. Police killed many gang members including Vikas Dubey in an encounter and arrested more than 45 accused and sent them to jail. There was a government ration shop in the village in the name of Bikaru case accused Dayashankar Agnihotri, but when he went to jail, the district administration allotted it to someone else. Sub-Inspector Pradeep Kumar Mishra, Naib Tehsildar Atul Harsh and Inspector Vishwanath had gone on 10 July 2020 for transfer in the name of another. During investigation in the shop being run in Panchayat Bhawan, seven country-made bombs were found in a sack. The accused was booked under the Explosives Act.
The defense gave this argument in the court
The hearing of this case was going on in the anti-robbery court. After completion of the hearing, accused Dayashankar Agnihotri was presented in the court on the day of judgment on Monday. DGC Raju Porwal, ADGC Prashant Mishra said that accused Dayashankar Agnihotri has been sentenced to three years imprisonment along with a fine of Rs 3,000 under the Explosives Act. Prosecutor Prashant Kumar Mishra, advocate Mukesh Kumar and court clerk Balram Singh have played an important role in getting the punishment. At the same time, the defense side argued that the accused was involved in a rivalry because he was accused in the Bikaru case. Along with this, there was talk of running a quota shop in the house of the accused and not the Panchayat building, which the prosecution opposed and argued that the accused was powerful and had taken over the Panchayat building. After hearing the arguments of defense and prosecution, the court convicted the accused Dayashankar Agnihotri. After this, the court sentenced the accused Dayashankar Agnihotri to three years imprisonment under the Explosives Act along with a fine of Rs 3,000.