PRAYAGRAJ: Mafiosi-turned politician Atiq Ahmad and his youthful brother Khalid Azeem aka Ashraf had been buried at Kasari Masari graveyard on the outskirts of Chakia locality on Sunday night time, solely a day after burial of Atiq’s son Asad on this very graveyard. Heavy police deployment was made exterior the graveyard and preparations of spotlights had been made to make sure correct lighting at the burial website.
The our bodies of Atiq and Ashraf had been taken to the graveyard by police in two separate ambulances. First, the physique of Atiq Ahmad was taken to the graveyard at round 6.30 pm after the submit mortem examination was accomplished at the mortuary in at SRN hospital by a panel of medical doctors. At round 7 pm, one other ambulance was used to take Ashraf’s physique on to the Kasari Masari graveyard for the final rites.
All of the pre-burial rituals had been carried out at the graveyard itself the place the district officers had obtained two graves dug up adjoining to one another, only a few metres from the grave of Asad.
Most of Atiq and Ashraf’s relations wished in lawyer Umesh Pal homicide case, together with Atiq’s spouse Shaista Parveen and Ashraf’s spouse Zainab Rubi, didn’t attend the funeral. The 2 minor sons of Atiq lodged in Kids’s Shelter Residence (Rajruppur) in addition to his two eldest sons Umar (lodged in Lucknow Jail) and Ali (lodged in Naini Central Jail) couldn’t attend it.
Round 100 individuals, together with a dozen girls, attended the funeral, together with shut relations of Atiq and Ashraf who weren’t named within the FIR lodged in reference to Umesh Pal’s homicide. Police escorted the relations to the graveyard for the funeral which came about after bathing the our bodies at the mosque situated contained in the graveyard.
Ashraf’s three minor daughters and a minor son moreover his father-in-law, in addition to Atiq’s in-laws took half within the rituals.
Entry to the graveyard was saved strictly restricted and even media individuals had been saved nicely away from the burial website. Individuals had been granted entry solely after their identification was checked and their names entered in a register. The burial of each the our bodies concluded at round 8.25 pm following which the relations had been requested to depart the graveyard. Ashraf’s youngsters had been additionally taken away by their maternal grandfather.
The funeral of Atiq and Ashraf concluded amid rumours of the arrival of Atiq’s spouse Shaista Parveen, Ashraf’s spouse Zainab Rubi and Atiq’s two minor sons Ahzam and Abaan who’re presently lodged at Youngster Shelter. Nonetheless, police officers denied their arrival at the graveyard for the funeral.