The three assailants were 'small time criminals' & checked into lodge in Prayagraj 48 hours before attacking Atiq Ahmed and his brother Ashraf, ThePrint has learnt.
Recalling fatal attack on Atiq Ahmed & brother Ashraf, eyewitnesses say the three assailants didn't run after opening indiscriminate fire and instead surrendered to the police.
Umesh Pal's murder in February this year brought Atiq Ahmed under UP government lens again. He was also convicted for the first time in Pal's abduction case.
Atiq Ahmed, the gangster-turned-politician who was first convicted only last month, despite 130-odd cases against him, was gunned down late Saturday night.
UP Police told court Ahmed in statement admitted to links with ISI & Lashkar and explained how Umesh Pal murder was 'plotted in jail'. Lawyers say 'police version' not admissible in court.
While ADG STF, Amitabh Yash, confirmed the deaths of Ahmed's son, Asad, & his 'accomplice', Ghulam, he did not reveal details of the circumstances leading to the encounter.
Gangster-turned politician Atiq Ahmed is watching the Adityanath govt seize his legal and illegal benami properties across UP and hand them back to citizens.
Abduction case is based on a complaint by Umesh Pal, a key witness in BSP MLA Raju Pal’s killing who was himself murdered in February this year. Ahmed is an accused in both cases.
In a petition, jailed gangster-turned-politician Atiq Ahmed’s wife said her children had been ‘illegally detained’ on 24 Feb. She also filed a petition before Allahabad HC.
Barring her first two Budgets, Nirmala Sitharaman has always ended the year with either a lower fiscal deficit figure than what she had projected or by adhering to the target.
MoSPI proposes to remove closed factories from IIP sample, aiming for truer picture of India’s industrial health in upcoming 2022–23 base series. Plan open to public feedback until 25 November.
Bihar is blessed with a land more fertile for revolutions than any in India. Why has it fallen so far behind then? Constant obsession with politics is at the root of its destruction.
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