New Delhi: Gangster-turned-politician Atiq Ahmed and his brother Khalid Azeem alias Ashraf, who have been shot lifeless whereas they have been being escorted by Uttar Pradesh police personnel to a medical faculty for a checkup, have been buried in Prayagraj on Sunday. The two brothers have been buried on the Kasari Masari graveyard, a day after Atiq’s son Asad, an accused within the Umesh Pal homicide case who fell to police bullets, was buried on the identical graveyard. Atiq was laid to relaxation proper subsequent to his son’s grave, who was killed in a police encounter in Jhansi on April 13. He was on the run since Umesh Pal’s killing on February 24.Â
The graveyard is alleged to be positioned in Atiq Ahmed’s ancestral village and his dad and mom have been additionally reportedly laid to relaxation there. Only a number of distant relations of the deceased brothers and locals have been current contained in the burial floor.
VIDEO | Locals collect in massive numbers at Kasari Masari graveyard in Prayagraj the place our bodies of Atiq Ahmad and Ashraf are being buried. pic.twitter.com/9bq84xq3sI
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Atiq Ahmed and Ashraf, who have been in handcuffs, have been shot lifeless by three males posing as journalists after they have been answering reporters’ queries whereas being escorted by police personnel to a medical faculty for a checkup in Prayagraj.
Ahmed, a former Samajwadi Party (SP) MP, and his brother have been dropped at Prayagraj for a courtroom listening to in reference to this yr’s Umesh Pal homicide case and have been remanded in police custody.
On Sunday, the three assailants who pumped bullets into Atiq and Ashraf have been offered in a district courtroom, which remanded them in judicial custody for 14 days.
The Yogi Adityanath-led Uttar Pradesh authorities has shaped a three-member judicial fee to probe the killing of the brothers. The fee will likely be headed by retired excessive courtroom choose Arvind Kumar Tripathi. Retired choose Brijesh Kumar Soni and former Uttar Pradesh Director General of Police (DGP) Subesh Kumar Singh would be the two different members of the panel, officers stated.
The fee should submit its report back to the federal government inside two months, they stated, including that the state dwelling division has shaped the probe panel beneath the Commission of Inquiry Act, 1952.
Atiq Ahmed’s Killers Wanted To Become Famous
According to the FIR, the three shooters of Atiq and his brother Ashraf killed the Ahmed brothers to make a reputation for themselves on the planet of crime. The assailants, who’ve been recognized as Lavlesh Tiwari (22) of Banda, Mohit alias Sunny (23) of Hamirpur, and Arun Maurya (18) of Kasganj, have been arrested quickly after the dramatic shootout exterior the Prayagraj hospital.
The shooters, who posed as TV crew and fired at virtually point-blank vary, informed police they wished to make a reputation for themselves and set up their identification by eliminating Atiq Ahmed’s gang.
“Since the time we got to know about the police custody of Atiq and Ashraf, we were planning to murder them. So we posed as journalists and when we got the right opportunity, we pulled the trigger and implemented the plan,” one of many accused is quoted as saying within the FIR.
Police described Sunny as a ‘history-sheeter’ who had 14 circumstances registered in opposition to him. These embody homicide, try to homicide, theft, and narcotics smuggling.
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Lavlesh Tiwari additionally faces circumstances of promoting illicit liquor, manhandling, eve-teasing, and fees beneath the IT Act in Banda, police stated.
Police are nonetheless probing whether or not Maurya was concerned in any crime earlier.
After the shootout, police charged the three males with homicide and try to homicide, in addition to beneath the Arms Act. At least two firearms have been recovered from the positioning of the capturing.
6 individuals named in Umesh Pal case killed to this point
With Atiq Ahmed and Ashraf’s killings, three of the household’s 4 members named within the Umesh Pal homicide case have been killed. Ten individuals have been named within the FIR registered on the Dhoomanganj police station of Prayagraj on February 25, a day after Umesh Pal, a key witness within the 2005 BSP MLA Raju Pal homicide case, by which Atiq was additionally an accused, was killed.
Apart from Atiq and Ashraf, 4 others named within the FIR — Asad, Arbaaz, Vijay Chaudhary alias Usman and Ghulam — have additionally been killed.
Atiq Ahmed’s spouse Shaista Parveen and three different alleged shooters are absconding.
Of the seven individuals seen within the CCTV footage that captured the killing of Umesh Pal, Arbaaz, who allegedly drove a sports activities utility car (SUV) carrying the attackers, was killed in an encounter on February 27.
Shooter Vijay Chaudhary alias Usman was killed in an encounter in Prayagraj on March 6. Asad and Ghulam have been killed in one other encounter with the Uttar Pradesh Special Task Force in Jhansi on April 13.
The three remaining shooters — Guddu Muslim, Sabir and Armaan — are absconding
After Umesh Pal’s killing, Samajwadi Party (SP) chief Akhilesh Yadav had flagged the law-and-order scenario of Uttar Pradesh within the state Assembly.
In a heated debate that adopted, Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath had accused the SP of sheltering gangsters like Ahmed and stated the federal government will floor the mafias to mud (“mitti me mila denge”).
