Lagatar24 Desk
Lucknow, April 24: Asad Ahmed, the son of gangster-turned-politician Atiq Ahmed, was killed in an encounter in the State, and the Uttar Pradesh government has set up a two-member judicial commission to investigate the incident.
The creation of a two-member judicial enquiry commission to look into the encounter in Jhansi was announced by the State administration on Sunday.
On April 13 near Jhansi, Asad and his accomplice Ghulam in the Umesh Pal murder case were both killed in a shootout with the Uttar Pradesh Special Task Force.
Rajeev Lochan Mehrotra, a retired judge from the High Court, and retired DG Vijay Kumar Gupta will serve as the committee’s leaders.
Earlier, Two special investigating teams (SITs) have been formed by the Uttar Pradesh police, to look into the shocking killings of Atiq Ahmed and Ashraf Ahmed.
In addition, the State government ordered the creation of a three-person judicial inquiry commission, which would be led by retired judge Arvind Kumar Tripathi of the Allahabad High Court, to look into the killings of Atiq Ahmed and his brother Ashraf Ahmed. Brijesh Kumar Soni, a retired judge, and Subesh Kumar Singh, a former DGP, are two additional members of the committee.
On the evening of April 15, Atiq Ahmed and his brother Ashraf were killed in Prayagraj while being taken for a medical examination by guys posing as journalists. Both gangsters were shot at about point-blank range before collapsing to the ground.
Atiq Ahmed was charged in the 2005 murder of Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) MLA Raju Pal as well as the murder of Umesh Pal in February of this year.
