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UP’s special investigation team

tries to solve murder mystery

of Ahmed Brothers

All three attackers were apprehended at the scene after they voluntarily turned themselves in.

They have been kept in the custody of the police and questioned

OUR BUREAU
Prayagraj/Lucknow

n a shocking turn of events on
April 15, three shooters -- Arun
IMaurya, Sunny Singh and Love-
lesh Tiwari -- posing as media per-
sons, gunned down Atiq Ahmed and
his brother Ashraf, while they were
being taken for medical in Prayagraj.
The gangster siblings were surround-
ed by a sizeable contingent of police
escorts at the time of the incident.
Atiq was accused in the 2005
murder of Bahujan Samaj Party
(BSP) MLA Raju Pal and, subse-
quently, in the killing of advocate
Umesh Pal, a key witness to the earli-
er incident, in February this year.
The murder mystery is now
deepening.
The Judicial committee consti- Special Investigation Team (SIT) and the forensic team recreate the crime scene, where three assailants shot dead gangster-turned-politician
tuted by the Uttar Pradesh govern- Atiq Ahmed and his brother Ashraf on April 15 in Prayagraj on Thursday (ANI)
ment visited Prayagraj on Thursday
while the Special Investigation Team
recreated the crime scene where also used in operation. However, the it to them. vestigates a case, they track every de-
gangsters Atiq Ahmed and his broth- operation did not prove successful Meanwhile, recounting an en- tail minutely, ranging from cases reg-
er Ashraf were shot dead. today,” said Samar Bahadur, ASP, counter of Delhi Police’s Special Cell istered against an impugned person
Also, three friends of Lovelesh Kaushambi. -- a unit mostly tasked with fighting to his associates,” Singh said.
Tiwari, the main accused in the sen- Interestingly, all three attackers terrorism and going after dread- “The team recovered the phone
sational killing of gangster turned were apprehended at the scene after ed criminals -- with the slain gang- number of Atiq’s sharpshooter after
politician Atiq Ahmed and his broth- they voluntarily turned themselves ster-turned-politician Atiq Ahmed which they put him on technical sur-
er Ashraf Ahmed, were detained by in. They have been kept in the cus- in 2008, former director of Enforce- veillance (through the phone num-
a Special Investigation Team (SIT) tody of the police and questioned. ment Directorate (ED), Karnal ber). They listened in on a phone call
in Uttar Pradesh’s Banda. “The trio A CJM court in Uttar Pradesh’s Singh, on Thursday said the feared in which Atiq said he was on his way
were caught at Banda railway sta- Prayagraj on Wednesday remand- gang lord once “wet his pants” on to a house in Delhi’s Pitampura,”
tion,” officials said. ed gangster Atiq Ahmed’s killers to seeing the police. Singh told ANI, adding that the Spe-
The SIT team has also reached four-day police custody. “The incident dates back to Jan- cial Cell team reached the location
Hamirpur and Kasganj to conduct This comes after the Special uary 2008 when I was in the Special and surrounded the house.
the further probe, they added. Ut- Investigation Team filed an applica- Cell of Delhi Police. The Special Cell “As he stepped out of the house
tar Pradesh Police conducted raids tion in the court seeking remand for had created a database of dreaded and proceeded to climb into his car,
in search of Shaista Parveen, wife questioning for all three accused. criminals from north India and the an officer confronted him. He point-
of Atiq Ahmed, in Kaushambi on They were earlier sent to 14-day list figured Atiq as well. He had a cash ed a gun at him, asking him to get out
Wednesday. judicial custody by the district court reward of Rs 1 lakh on his head at of the car. On being informed that
“Raids were conducted in on April 16. the time and was declared abscond- the team surrounding him was from
search of Shaista Parveen, wife of During the police remand, the ing,” the former ED director told the Special Cell, he was visibly scared
gangster Atiq Ahmed. A search op- police will question the accused ANI in an exclusive interview. He and wet his pants,” Singh recalled.
eration was conducted after receiv- about the weapon they used to kill revealed further that a crack team of He said Atiq was then brought
ing information about some crimi- Atiq Ahmed and his brother Ashraf the Delhi Police Special Cell was as- to the Special Cell office before
nals hiding. The operation lasted for on April 15 night, where did they signed to go after Atiq at the time. being handed over to the Uttar
about 2 hours. A drone camera was get the weapon from and who gave “And when the Special Cell in- Pradesh Police.

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