Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar on Monday hit out at the Uttar Pradesh government over the killing of gangster-turned-politician Atiq Ahmad and his brother Ashraf in Prayagraj. Kumar said that the UP govt should “think about the law and order in the state”.
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“Police should have taken care of their security. The Court is there to provide justice, killing the criminals is never a solution,” Nitish Kumar told the media.
Atiq and Ashraf were shot dead at nearly point-blank range in full media glare by three men posing as journalists in Prayagraj on Saturday night while they were being taken for a medical examination. The three killers - identified as Sunny Singh, Lavlesh Tiwari, and Arun Maurya - who immediately surrendered and were arrested, have been sent to a 14-day judicial custody by the Prayagraj magistrate court.
The Ahmad brothers were buried at Kasari Masari graveyard on the outskirts of Chakia locality on Sunday night - the same place where Atiq's son Asad was buried after he was killed in an encounter in UP's Jhansi.
{{/usCountry}}The Ahmad brothers were buried at Kasari Masari graveyard on the outskirts of Chakia locality on Sunday night - the same place where Atiq's son Asad was buried after he was killed in an encounter in UP's Jhansi.
{{/usCountry}}A day after the shooting, the UP government formed a three-member judicial committee to probe the incident. The commission will be headed by Allahabad high court judge (retired) Arvind Kumar Tripathi, and will include two other members - retired judge Brijesh Kumar Soni and former DGP Subesh Kumar Singh.
Meanwhile, on Monday, Prayagraj's Commissioner of Police Ramit Sharma formed a three-member special investigation team (SIT) - which will be headed by Additional Deputy Commissioner of Police Satish Chandra.