Atiq Ahmed, the Uttar Pradesh gangster who faced at least 100 criminal cases, and his brother Ashraf Ahmed were shot dead today.
Atiq Ahmed, the Uttar Pradesh gangster who faced at least 100 criminal cases, and his brother Ashraf Ahmed were shot dead today while they were being taken for a medical check-up in Uttar Pradesh’s Prayagraj.
Atiq Ahmed’s son Asad was killed in an encounter in UP’s Jhansi on Thursday.
The Ahmed brothers were killed two days after Uttar Pradesh Police killed Atiq’s son Asad and another man in an ‘encounter’ in Jhansi. Atiq had earlier approached the Supreme Court, saying that he feared he would be killed in a fake encounter.
Atiq, is a former MP and MLA, and has been associated with various political parties, including the Samajwadi Party and earlier, Bharatiya Janata Party.
Atiq and his aides were accused of kidnapping and torturing Umesh Pal, who was the primary witness in a murder case in which Atiq was allegedly involved, in 2007. Atiq was also named main accused after Pal and two men assigned as his security detail were murdered earlier this year.
He was sentenced to rigorous life imprisonment by an MP-MLA court in an abduction case last month.