2023-04-18 05:01:00
The death of former Indian lawmaker Atiq Ahmed was caused by nine shotsone of them in the head, received while declaring before the cameras and journalists last Saturday in the north of the Indiarevealed the autopsy.
Forensics found at least nine gunshot wounds on Atiq Ahmed’s body, and another five on the body of his brother Ashraf Ahmedalso killed in the same incident, the Indian news channel NDTV revealed on Monday.
The post mortem evaluation was made by five doctors and recorded on video to guarantee the results of the case report, considered high profile.
Atiq Ahmed, and his brother were killed in front of the cameras and journalists, during a statement to the press, when they went to a health center for a medical check-up guarded by the police last Saturday in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh.
Despite police custody, three attackers were able to get close to the Ahmed brothers posing as journalists, opening fire and shooting for several seconds without being stopped.
The perpetrators of the attack, who were detained after the event by the authorities, confessed during interrogation that they committed the crime with the intention of becoming famous, according to a police report.
Although the former politician, involved in a hundred investigations, was in a prison in the state of Gujarat, in the west of the country, he had recently been transferred to Prayagraj, in northern Uttar Pradesh, to attend a hearing on one of the cases. criminals against you.
Previously, in statements to the regional media, the former politician had denounced alleged plans to assassinate him in a simulated confrontation. “Thanks to you that I am safe,” he once told reporters in one of his statements, according to some local newspapers.
Four days earlier, a 19-year-old son of the former politician, Asad, who along with his father was charged with murder, was killed in an encounter with Uttar Pradesh security forces.
The opposition deputy Kapil Sibal questioned on Monday the reasons that led the police authorities to take Atiq Ahmed for a medical check-up at ten at night whether it was not a medical emergency and why the media was on the scene.
Among the list of crimes against Atiq Ahmed is an investigation into the murder of a parliamentarian in 2005.
The former politician began to gain notoriety in the 1990s, when he began a political career that led him to occupy a seat in the Lower House of the Indian Parliament or Lok Sabha for the socialist formation Samajwadi Party.
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