Police on the web site the place gangster-turned-politician Atiq Ahmed and his brother Ashraf have been shot lifeless in Prayagraj on Saturday. (Image: PTI)
Uttar Pradesh CM Yogi Adityanath held a high-level evaluation assembly and ordered a three-member judicial fee of inquiry into the incident even as questions are being raised on the UP Police and the safety element of the brothers
Three assailants posing as journalists, carrying a video digital camera and microphone, fired at gangster-turned-politician Atiq Ahmed and his brother Ashraf from shut vary, ensuing of their deaths late on Saturday. The incident passed off when the brothers, in handcuffs amid police cowl, went to a hospital for a medical check-up in Prayagraj.
The killings left many shocked as they occurred in full media glare and have been captured reside; this comes simply two days after Atiq’s son Asad Ahmed was gunned down in a police encounter in Jhansi and was buried in his native village on Saturday. Atiq, Ashraf and Asad have been the prime accused in lawyer Umesh Pal’s homicide case.
With this, the opposition has launched an assault on the Yogi Adityanath-led authorities over the legislation and order state of affairs in Uttar Pradesh. The chief minister held a high-level evaluation assembly and ordered a three-member judicial fee of inquiry into the incident.
The killings increase questions on the UP Police and over whether or not the safety element for the brothers was robust sufficient on the time they have been introduced for a medical examination late at night time. They have been in police custody and being interrogated within the Umesh Pal case. Armed police personnel didn’t open hearth on the three assailants, who shortly surrendered inside seconds of killing the handcuffed pair. The brothers have been chatting with journalists when the assailants emerged and shot at them a number of instances.
It additionally raises questions on why police gave media such shut entry to the Ahmed brothers on completely different events, together with that point when Atiq was introduced from Ahmedabad to Prayagraj. Many instances, he has additionally given reactions to the media. It factors to how the assailants may have deliberate the killing after an intensive a recee and figured that it might be straightforward for them to get near the brothers in the event that they posed as journalists.
In the previous, Atiq had even advised journalists that he was alive solely as a result of they have been following his police convoy. Police is now questioning the three attackers, who’ve been recognized as Lavleen Tiwari, Arun and Sunny. Section 144 has been enforced in Prayagraj after the killings whereas police are on excessive alert.
Minister Suresh Khanna, in the meantime, referred to as the incident “aasmaani faisla” (divine intervention) when injustice crossed its limits, while BJP leader Kailash Vijayvargiya said it was written in the Bhagavad Gita that “when demons are killed, pressure on earth reduces”.
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