Atiq Ahmed, the Uttar Pradesh gangster who faced at least 100 criminal cases, and his brother Ashraf Ahmed were killed today while they were being taken for a medical check-up in Uttar Pradesh’s Prayagraj, news agency ANI reported.
Atiq Ahmed’s son Asad was killed in an encounter in UP’s Jhansi on Thursday.
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Vijay Mishra, the lawyer of the murdered gangster, told media that someone from a crowd of people fired at Atiq Ahmed and his brother from close range. Mr Mishra said he was standing beside them when they were shot dead.
Two people have been arrested, the lawyer said, though the police are yet to issue a statement on the killings.
Atiq Ahmed was a Samajwadi Party MP and was convicted in a kidnapping case. He was also an accused in the murder of Bahujan Samaj Party MLA Raju Pal in 2005 and the killing of Umesh Pal, the murdered MLA’s lawyer, in February this year.
