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Atiq Ahmad’s Assassins Shifted
Three sharpshooters who shot gangster-politician Atiq Ahmad and his brother Ashraf to death on the spot were transferred from the Prayagraj Central Jail to the Pratapgarh District Jail on Monday due to security concerns following the dramatic killings. A top official was reported by the news agency PTI as stating that the three murderers’ transfer was made for administrative reasons.
Soon after the spectacular firing outside the Prayagraj hospital, the suspects Lavlesh Tiwari of Banda, Mohit alias Sunny of Hamirpur, and Arun Maurya of Kasganj were apprehended when police officers were accompanying the brothers for a checkup on Saturday night.
Atiq Ahmed, a member of the mafia, and his brother Ashraf were killed last Saturday night. When Atiq and his brother were brought by the police for a medical checkup, the murder was committed. Three accused were involved in this incident. The accused had called themselves media persons to reach Atiq.Â
Special Investigating Teams Formed for Prayagraj Killings
The Uttar Pradesh Police formed two special investigating teams (SITs) to look into the shocking slaying event that left gangster-turned-politician Atiq Ahmed and his brother Ashraf Ahmed dead in Prayagraj almost two days earlier.
According to a directive given on Sunday by Prayagraj Commissioner of Police Ramit Sharma, the first SIT has been established to look into the murder case reported to the Shahganj police station and will be led by Additional DCP (crime) Satish Chandra. In order to supervise the first SIT, a second SIT has been established.
SIT was Formed to Investigate Atiq’s Murder
According to a directive from the Uttar Pradesh Director General of Police, RK Vishwakarma this SIT would be led by ADG Prayagraj Zone Bhanu Bhaskar and include the Prayagraj Commissioner of Police and Director for the Forensic Science Laboratory as members.
While being escorted for a medical checkup in Prayagraj on Saturday night, Atiq Ahmad and his brother Ashraf Ahmad were shot and killed by individuals acting as press personnel. After being shot at almost point-blank range, both thugs passed out on the spot.
Yogi Adityanath, the chief minister of Uttar Pradesh, took notice of the occurrence quickly and commanded that a judicial panel be established to investigate it. The district court sentenced all three shooters—Arun Maurya, Sunny Singh, and Lovelesh Tiwari—to 14 days in judicial detention on Sunday for the murders of Atiq Ahmed and his brother Ashraf. Atiq Ahmed, a former criminal turned politician, and his brother Ashraf had their funeral services on Sunday in a family gravesite in Prayagraj’s Kasari Masari neighborhood.Â
A Panel of Retired Judges to Probe Atiq’s Death
A three-person judicial committee has been established by the government of Uttar Pradesh to look into the death of Atiq Ahmad. Arvind Kumar Tripathi, a retired judge from the Allahabad High Court, will serve as the panel’s chairman. Retired judges BK Soni and Subesh Kumar Singh, an ex-DGP, will also be on the panel.
From a children’s home, the minor sons of mobster Atiq Ahmed were carried to the cemetery. Both the 2005 assassination of Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) MLA Raju Pal and the murder of Umesh Pal in February 2017 were assigned to Atiq Ahmed.
Questions are being raised by the police regarding the murder of Atiq and Ashraf Ahmed in police custody in Prayagraj that due to the lapse of the police, the miscreants succeeded in killing both of them. Even when the assailants and Atiq were both in the presence of 20 police officers on Saturday night, neither could be saved. About 20 bullets were fired by the assailants, but not a single one was fired by the police. Also, why wasn’t Atiq Ahmed’s automobile driven into the hospital, but left at the gate outside?
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