Atiq-Ashraf Killing: Five Police Officials Suspended For ‘Negligence’

Prayagraj: Four police officers together with the station officer of Shahganj Police Station in Uttar Pradesh`s Prayagraj have been suspended for `negligence` whereas taking gangsters Atiq Ahmed and his brother Ashraf for a medical checkup on April 15 evening after they have been killed, police mentioned on Wednesday. The SO who was suspended was recognized as Ashwani Kumar Singh.

The Special Investigation Team constituted by the police had questioned all of the police personnel yesterday after which the police motion was taken on the premise of the SIT report. Atiq and Ashraf have been killed on April 15 evening whereas being taken for a medical checkup. They have been shot useless at point-blank vary by three miscreants posing as media individuals with whom the 2 gangsters have been interacting. They have been killed within the presence of the police.

Earlier as we speak, a CJM court docket in Uttar Pradesh`s Prayagraj on Wednesday remanded gangster Atiq Ahmed`s killers to four-day police custody. This comes after the Special Investigation Team filed an utility within the court docket searching for remand for questioning for all three accused. They have been earlier despatched to 14-day judicial custody by the district court docket on April 16.

During the police remand, the police will query the accused, who have been recognized as Arun Maurya, Sunny Singh, and Lovelesh Tiwari, concerning the weapon they used to kill Atiq Ahmed and his brother Ashraf on April 15 evening, the place did they get the weapon from and who gave it to them.

The police will even search to know the rationale for the homicide of the gangsters. All three accused will once more be offered in court docket on April 23. Earlier as we speak, they have been delivered to the court docket amid tight safety.

Earlier, the three assailants have been shifted from Prayagraj`s Naini Central Jail to the Pratapgarh district jail on Monday.”All three shooters, Arun Maurya, Sunny Singh, and Lovelesh Tiwari, are under threat of attack behind bars, owing to which they have been shifted to a high-security cell and are kept under CCTV surveillance,” official sources mentioned. On April 16, the final rites of gangster-turned-politician Atiq Ahmed and his brother Ashraf happened at a household graveyard within the Kasari Masari space of Prayagraj.