2023-04-16 11:36:18
A known expoliticalaccused of murder and who has already faced justice for cases related to mafia activities, and his brother were shot dead in front of the cameras as they went to a medical center under police escort in the north of the India.
Atiq Ahmed and his brother Ashraf, both under arrest for an alleged murder case, they were heading Saturday night handcuffed by the police to a health center in Prayagraj, in the state of Uttar Pradesh, when a group of assailants started shooting them point blank.
“The police got them out of the car and took them for a medical check-up. Right after they entered the medical compound, shots were heard (…) they were shot,” Atiq Ahmed’s lawyer, Vijay Mishra, told reporters.
The Indian ex-politician and mobster interacted with the press at the time of the event, which was left filmed in front of the cameras and whose images went viral on social networks instantly.
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Police have so far identified three suspected attackerswhich were also captured by media cameras as they they posed as journalists to commit the murder.
One of the parents of the alleged attackers told the press this Sunday that he found out about his son’s participation through the media and that he barely has contact with him.
What happened has led the head of government of Uttar Presdesh, Adityanath Yogi, to call a high-level meeting to study the security situation in the state and instruct officers to remain on high alert.
The police of the state, for its part, faces criticism for the way in which the murder of Ahmed and his brother, who were in their custody, was committed.
Ahmed Ahmed accumulates a hundred criminal cases against himamong them for assault and murder, and his popularity reached notoriety in the 90s, when he began a political career that led him to occupy a seat in the Lower House of the Indian Parliament or Lok Sabha.
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