In a blistering attack on Samajwadi Party, on Friday, Uttar PradeshChief Minister Yogi Adityanath said that while the nation’s heritage is represented by the Ram Temple, the SP’s true legacy is tied to figures like Khan Mubarak, Atiq Ahmed, and Mukhtar Ansari.
Speaking at an Eid Milap programme in Hyderabad, the AIMIM floor leader in the Telangana Assembly sounded prophetic when he asked his supporters to imagine a situation where there is no AIMIM and the Owaisi brothers.
Mafia don Atiq Ahmed and Ashraf's close associate Nafees Biryani, who was jailed in connection with the Umesh Pal murder case, died after suffering a heart attack, police said on Monday.
The Bareilly Police had announced a reward of Rs one lakh on Abdul Sammad alias Saddam, who had gone missing after the gruesome killing of lawyer Umesh Pal in Prayagraj on February 24, 2022.
The state of Uttar Pradesh has informed the Supreme Court that its police department has undergone a comprehensive modernization process.
The prevailing public impression is that police encounters are generally illegal and mostly fake. This, however, is an erroneous impression. Encounters per se are not illegal. The Criminal Procedure Code and the Indian Penal Code, permit use of force in exercise of the right of private defence. Section 46(3) of the CRPC empowers police to use force to the extent of causing death of a person accused of an offence punishable with death or imprisonment for life if such a person resists arrest or intends to evade arrest. Thus, an encounter per se is neither illegal nor indefensible. Unfortunately many fake encounters also take place.
In a shocking development, the forensic examination report has confirmed that the blood stains found in the partially demolished office of gangster Atiq Ahmed in Uttar Pradesh's Prayagraj district was human blood, police said.
According to the police, Atiq had confessed about his links with the ISI in police custody before his murder.
The chilling murder in full view of surrounding media crews drew censure from Opposition forces, who voiced concern over the prevailing law and order situation in Uttar Pradesh.
Earlier in the day, the police team reached the hotel for investigation, where Atiq Ahmed's killers had stayed before the murder.
