Police intensify search for Shaista Parveen

Cops detain some women on suspicion from Kaushambi for questioning regarding their role in providing shelter to Atiq’s wife

Police teams on Wednesday intensified the search operation launched in search of gangster-politician Atiq Ahmed’s wife Shaista Parveen who is on the run since the murder of lawyer Umesh Pal.

A domestic help who used to accompany Shaista to market and every other place is also being questioned. (File photo)

It is suspected that Ashraf’s wife Zainab and sister Ayesha Noori may also be in hiding with Shaista Parveen. Police teams carried out search operations from Chakia to many villages in Kaushambi to trace Shaista Parveen, officials said.

Police officials said that after receiving inputs that Shaista may have taken shelter in villages on the banks of the Ganga in Prayagraj and Kaushambi, police teams carried out raids and searched some homes. However, Shaista and other women of Atiq’s family were not found there, they added.

Meanwhile, police teams detained some women from Kaushambi who are suspected to have provided safe shelter to Shaista. A domestic help who used to accompany Shaista to market and every other place is also being questioned. The woman was missing for past some days and returned home recently. Police officials are trying to get clues about the whereabouts of Shaista and Ashraf’s wife Zainab.

Meanwhile, besides launching search operations in Hatwa, Sallahpur, Mariadih, Asrauli, Ujahni and other villages, cops in plain clothes have also been deployed at Kasari Masari graveyard. Police officials suspect that Shaista Parveen and Zainab may try to visit the graves of their husbands as no police personnel are present there now.

Shaista was named in the complaint given to Dhumanganj police by Jaya Pal after her husband Umesh Pal’s murder. After investigations police made Ashraf’s wife Zainab, sister Ayesha Noori and her two daughters an accused in the case.