New Delhi: The Uttar Pradesh police has shaped two three-member Special Task Forces to probe the killings of gangster-turned-politician Atiq Ahmed and his brother Ashraf. The two have been killed in Prayagraj on Saturday by three assailants posing as media individuals. Citing an announcement issued by Uttar Pradesh Director General of Police RK Vishwakarma, Special Director General of Police (Law and Order) Prashant Kumar mentioned the SIT was shaped on the directions of the Commissioner of Police of Prayagraj.Â
In order to make sure qualitative investigation and time-bound motion, a three-member crew of supervisors has additionally been shaped.
Two SITs have been constituted to analyze the killings of gangster-turned politician Atiq Ahmed and his brother Ashraf in Prayagraj, UP
A 3-member SIT, headed by ADG Prayagraj zone Bhanu Bhaskar, together with CP Prayagraj and Director FSL has been shaped by DGP RK… pic.twitter.com/sbGje6Nj8I
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Atiq Ahmed and his brother have been shot lifeless on Saturday amid police presence and buried in Prayagraj on the identical graveyard the place his son was laid to relaxation. The burial came about late on Sunday with a big police presence. Only a couple of family of the deceased brothers and locals have been permitted to attend the funeral.
According to the assertion, the opposite two members are the Prayagraj commissioner of police and the top of the Forensic Science Laboratory in Lucknow. Atiq and Ashraf, who have been arrested in February in reference to the killing of Umesh Pal, have been gunned down late Saturday night time in Prayagraj by three males posing as journalists because the siblings have been being taken to a hospital beneath police escort.
 Three shooters who gunned down Atiq Ahmed and his brother Ashraf Ahmed on the night time of April 15, have been shifted from the barracks to the high-security cell of Naini (Prayagraj) Central Jail on Monday.
The three shooters, Arun Maurya, Sunny Singh, and Lovelesh Tiwari have been despatched to 14-day judicial custody by the district court docket on Sunday. On Sunday, the final rites of gangster-turned-politician Atiq Ahmed and his brother Ashraf came about at a household graveyard within the Kasari Masari space of Prayagraj. Minor sons of gangster Atiq Ahmed have been dropped at the burial floor from a juvenile dwelling. Atiq Ahmed was accused within the 2005 Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) MLA Raju Pal homicide case and likewise within the Umesh Pal homicide case which occurred in February this yr.
