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“Now mafia cannot threaten anyone in Uttar Pradesh,” says UP CM Yogi Adityanath days after gangster brothers Atiq-Ashraf were killed amid police presence. Atiq’s son, Asad, was killed in a police encounter earlier.
Yogi Adityanath said, “Before 2017, law and order in Uttar Pradesh was bad and the state was infamous for riots. Earlier there was a crisis for the identity of the state, today the state is becoming a crisis for them (criminals and mafias).”
Gangster-turned-politician Atiq Ahmd and his brother Ashraf were shot dead at point-blank range by three men posing as journalists in the middle of a media interaction on Saturday night while police personnel were escorting them to a medical college in Prayagraj for a checkup.
