Atiq Ahmed killing: Two days after the sensational incident, yet one more letter petition has been filed in the Supreme Court seeking a Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) probe into the killings of gangster-turned-politician Atiq Ahmed and his brother Ashraf in the presence of police in Uttar Pradesh’s Prayagraj district.
As per the knowledge, the letter petition has been moved by retired IPS officer Amitabh Thakur. In his petition, he has urged the highest courtroom to challenge instructions to the involved respondents to take cognizance of the petitioner’s illustration and accordingly direct the State of Uttar Pradesh to switch FIR towards three shooters to the CBI.
The petitioner knowledgeable the apex courtroom that point is of utmost significance in the actual case as a result of there was an opportunity that the three accused would possibly get killed in judicial custody and the reality can be misplaced without end.
What did the plea search?
“Thus, there is an immediate need to act in the given case, as time is of immense value and the matter needs immediate and urgent attention. That despite these repeated pleas, nothing has been done by the State of UP. For all these reasons, in such circumstances, having no any officious and effective alternative remedy in these circumstances, considering the importance of the matter, this writ petition is being filed under Article 226 of the Constitution of India,” the petitioner stated.
Petitioner Thakur additionally raised questions that how might such an incident happen in such alleged excessive safety. “Why did the security seem to be slackened at the given point of time? Why were the media persons allowed to interact with men in police custody?” the plea questioned.
Why police remained nearly complacent all by means of the method, he requested. He stated that every thing that appears to be associated to Atiq Ahmed’s homicide appears “extremely sketchy, fishy, suspicious.” It can also be fairly apparent that there generally is a nice chance of the complete homicide scheme being a state-sponsored train, the place the excessive and mighty is likely to be concerned, for all types of nefarious functions, the plea added.
1st plea into the incident filed on April 16
Earlier on Sunday (April 16), an advocate had moved a plea in the Supreme Court seeking an inquiry into the 183 encounters which have taken place in Uttar Pradesh since 2017. The plea additionally sought a structure of an unbiased knowledgeable committee headed by a former apex courtroom choose to probe the killings of gangster-politician Atiq Ahmad and his brother Ashraf. Recently, Uttar Pradesh Police claimed that it has gunned down 183 alleged criminals in encounters in the six years of the Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath-led authorities and this included Asad and his confederate.
“Issue guidelines/directions to safeguard the rule of law by constituting an Independent Expert Committee under the Chairmanship of former Supreme Court justice to inquire into the 183 encounters which had occurred since 2017 as stated by Uttar Pradesh Special Director General of Police (Law and Order) and also to inquire into the police custody murder of Atiq and Ashraf,” the plea stated.
Atiq-Ashraf killing
It must be talked about right here that Mafia-turned-politician Atiq Ahmed and his brother Ashraf have been killed in Prayagraj on Saturday evening amid police presence. The incident occurred once they have been being escorted by police to a medical school in the district. Three males carried out the assault on the gangsters whereas posing as media individuals. They have been recognized as Lavlesh Tiwari (22) of Banda, Mohit alias Sunny (23) of Hamirpur and Arun Maurya (18) of Kasganj. They all allegedly had felony backgrounds.
(With ANI inputs)
