Uttar Pradesh Police forms SIT to probe killing of Atiq Ahmad, brother Asraf; check details
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On Sunday, Atiq Ahmad and his brother Ashraf were buried in their ancestral village in this Uttar Pradesh district amid tight security. The bodies of the brothers were taken to the Kasari Masari graveyard in ambulances at around 6:30 pm.
A senior official on Monday (April 17) said that the Uttar Pradesh Police has formed a three-member Special Investigation Team (SIT) to probe the killing of gangster-turned-politician Atiq Ahmad and his brother Ashraf in Prayagraj.
Citing a statement issued by Uttar Pradesh Director General of Police RK Vishwakarma, Special Director General of Police (Law and Order) Prashant Kumar said the SIT was formed on the instructions of the Commissioner of Police of Prayagraj.
In order to ensure qualitative investigation and time-bound action, a three-member team of supervisors has also been formed. This team is headed by the additional director general of police of Prayagraj.
"The other two members are the commissioner of police of Prayagraj and the director of the Forensic Science Laboratory, Lucknow," the statement said. Atiq and Ashraf, who were arrested in connection with the killing of Umesh Pal in February this year, were gunned down in Prayagraj late Saturday night by three men posing as journalists while the siblings were being taken to a hospital under police escort.
On Sunday, Atiq Ahmad and his brother Ashraf were buried in their ancestral village in this Uttar Pradesh district amid tight security. The bodies of the brothers were taken to the Kasari Masari graveyard in ambulances at around 6:30 pm.
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Ahmad's son Asad, an accused in the Umesh Pal murder case who fell to police bullets, was buried at the same graveyard here on Saturday. Ahmad was laid to rest right next to his son's grave. The graveyard is located in Ahmad's ancestral village and his parents were also buried there.
There was heavy police presence at the graveyard and only a few distant relatives of the deceased brothers and locals were present inside the burial ground.
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