Days after Atiq Ahmed’s son Asad was killed in an encounter in Uttar Pradesh’s Jhansi, the mafia-turned-politician and his brother Ashraf Ahmed were killed on Saturday while being taken for a medical in Prayagraj.
Atiq Ahmed was accused in the 2005 BSP MLA Raju Pal murder case and also in the Umesh Pal murder case which happened in February this year.Further details are awaited.
Atiq had claimed that he faced an “open, direct, and immediate threat” to his life from Uttar Pradesh state functionaries, and had urged the court to instruct the central government to ensure his and his family’s safety.