“How Did (Killers) Know?” Supreme Court Questions For UP On Gangster Murder
Questions raised over the brazen killings of a infamous gangster-flesh presser and his brother in Uttar Pradesh`s Prayagraj weeks in the past even as in police custody had been requested via way of means of the Supreme Court on Friday, which demanded a document over the incident. Atiq Ahmad and his brother Ashraf had been gunned down via way of means of 3 assailants on April 15 as they had been being escorted via way of means of the police to a health facility for a recurring check-up. The attackers, who pretended to be journalists, surrendered after taking pictures the brothers a couple of instances at near range.
The Supreme Court requested the Uttar Pradesh authorities to publish a document at the incident. The courtroom docket additionally sought a document at the police come across of Ahmad’s son Asad, who changed into killed via way of means of a unique challenge pressure in Jhansi on April 13.
“How did they know? We have visible it on TV. Why had been Atiq Ahmed and his brother now no longer taken in an ambulance to the health facility? Why had been they made to stroll and paraded,” the courtroom docket requested.
The authorities advised the courtroom docket that the brothers had been being taken for a scientific check mandated via way of means of the courtroom docket. “As in line with orders of the courtroom docket, they needed to be taken for scientific exams each days. So, the clicking knew. We have appointed a Commission to inspect the matter,” it stated.
“This man (Atiq Ahmad) and his whole own circle of relatives had been embroiled in heinous instances for the final 30 years. This incident specially is a grotesque incident. We have apprehended the killers, and that they stated they did this to advantage importance,” senior recommend Mukul Rohatgi, who seemed for the UP authorities, stated.
“Everyone noticed the killings at the television. The killers got here withinside the guise of information photographers. They had passes, had been sporting cameras, and had been even sporting identification playing cards that had been later determined to be fake. There had been 50 humans there and extra humans outside. This is how they controlled to kill,” he stated.
Ahmad, a former member of parliament, had a protracted crook document that covered expenses of murder, kidnapping, extortion and rioting. He changed into additionally accused of orchestrating an assault on a businessman interior a jail in 2018. He were lodged in a high-protection prison in Gujarat given that 2019 and changed into added to Prayagraj for a courtroom docket hearing.
The case earlier than the Supreme Court, filed via way of means of recommend Vishal Tiwari, has alleged that the killings of Ahmad and his own circle of relatives contributors had been a part of a sample of disposing of criminals thru extrajudicial means.
Mr Tiwari has sought an inquiry into the 183 encounters which have taken location in Uttar Pradesh given that 2017 while the contemporary authorities led via way of means of Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath got here to power.
Calling for a document at the killings in 3 weeks, the courtroom docket stated, “A complete affidavit might be filed indicating the stairs taken to inquire into the deaths which took place on April 15 close to Moti Lal Nehru Divisional Hospital,Prayagraj. The affidavit shall additionally divulge the stairs curious about appreciate to the incident that took place straight away previous to the only in query and additionally divulge the follow-up steps taken following Justice BS Chauhan fee document.”
Former Supreme Court choose Justice Chauhan headed a fee to probe the come across of gangster Vikas Dubey in 2020.
