Published By: Poorva Joshi
Last Updated: April 16, 2023, 14:52 IST
Jailed gangster-turned-politician Atiq Ahmad and his brother Ashraf had been shot lifeless late on Saturday (video seize)
Ahmad and Ashraf had been shot lifeless at point-blank vary by three males posing as journalists in the midst of a media interplay late Saturday evening
Madhya Pradesh Congress chief Kamal Nath on Sunday demanded a Supreme Court-monitored probe into the gunning down of gangster-turned-politician Atiq Ahmad and his brother Ashraf in Prayagraj in Uttar Pradesh a day earlier.
Ahmad and Ashraf had been shot lifeless at point-blank vary by three males posing as journalists in the midst of a media interplay late Saturday evening whereas police personnel had been escorting them to a medical school in Prayagraj for a compulsory check-up.
“What sort of politics is going down in Uttar Pradesh and within the nation? One day somebody is killed and the following day another person. It is for the society to suppose the place UP and the nation is headed. The Supreme Court ought to take discover of it and order an inquiry,” Nath said.
Hitting back at Nath, MP Bharatiya Janata Party spokesperson Narendra Saluja said Nath should have instead expressed grief over those who had been killed by Atiq Ahmad.
“Atiq was facing more than 100 criminal cases. It is shameful Nath is demanding an investigation into the killing of a man who murdered several people and destroyed their families. Nath is siding with the mafia for the politics of appeasement,” Saluja mentioned.
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