PRAYAGRAJ The classes court docket on Thursday adjourned until August 16 listening to in trial pending against the three accused who allegedly shot lifeless gangster-politician Atiq Ahmed and his brother Khalid Azim alias (*16*) on April 15. The court docket will frame charges against the trio on the subsequent date of listening to.
In accordance to district authorities counsel (prison) Gulab Chandra Agrahri, although this date was mounted for framing of charges against the accused, however when the accused appeared earlier than the court docket by way of video conferencing, they requested that they wished to interact their very own counsel within the case.
Accepting their request, classes choose Santosh Rai stated if they don’t interact their counsel by August 16, they are going to be supplied state counsel to characterize them in court docket proceedings.
On July 13, the Particular Investigation Group (SIT) had submitted a cost sheet against the three assailants — Lavlesh Tiwari, 22, Mohit Singh alias Shani, 23, and Arun Maurya, 18, who’re presently lodged in Pratapgarh district jail.
The SIT, which was constituted to examine this homicide case, submitted the cost sheet earlier than chief judicial Justice of the Peace (CJM) Dinesh Kumar Gautam after finishing its investigation beneath Part 302 (homicide) and several other different sections of the Indian Penal Code and Arms Act.
The trio had allegedly shot lifeless Atiq Ahmed and his brother (*16*) on April 15 round 10pm, once they had been being taken for a medical examination at Colvin Hospital of Prayagraj, as a compulsory authorized requirement. The assailants posed as journalists and shot the brother duo from point-blank vary. The shooters had instantly surrendered after the killing and had been arrested by cops current there.