: Heavy police forces had been deployed, and web providers remained suspended in Prayagraj on Sunday after gangster-politician Atiq Ahmed and his brother Ashraf had been shot lifeless in full media glare the earlier evening. Prohibitory orders under section 144 of the Code of Prison Process (CrPC) have been issued in all districts of Uttar Pradesh to forestall any untoward incident.
Quickly after the information of the murders broke, the busy Roshanbagh and Chowk markets, which had been abuzz with buyers forward of Eid-ul-Fitr, emptied as folks rushed again properties fearing violence on streets.
Police patrolling in the previous metropolis areas such as Chakia (the place Atiq’s residence is positioned), Roshanbagh, Rajruppur and Atala was stepped up under the supervision of the district Justice of the Peace and the town police chief even as all markets there have been shut down. Your complete metropolis wore a abandoned look as paramilitary and different security personnel guarded all intersections.
At Atiq’s ancestral residence, a house-help didn’t break his silence to this reporter’s queries if any relative had arrived there even as he stood there cleansing the canines’ shelter under the supervision of some policemen on Sunday morning.
Individuals in the Chakia and Kasarai Masari localities, too, avoided talking to any media particular person. A bunch of kids, seen discussing the occasions of final evening, principally saved mum when requested about their response.
“Sansadji (as Atiq was popularly known as by locals) and Ashraf bhai had been killed as a part of a conspiracy. Police had been accountable for his homicide,” stated one in every of them, however wished to stay nameless.
“The information of the assault on Atiq and Ashraf after which of their deaths got here as a shock for all residents of Chakia and different areas in the previous metropolis. Regardless of information channels displaying their lifeless our bodies and the footage of the assault, persons are discovering it arduous to imagine that they had been certainly lifeless,” stated a resident of Kasari Masari.
The footage of the murders was broadly shared by locals on social media earlier than the administration shut down the web to cease the unfold of any hearsay, in the morning.
Briefing reporters in regards to the incident, commissioner of police, Prayagraj, Ramit Sharma had on Saturday stated the three assailants, who had been arrested instantly after the incident, had joined the group of media individuals who had been making an attempt to get sound bites from Ahmad and Ashraf.
“In accordance with a compulsory authorized requirement, Ahmad and Ashraf had been dropped at the hospital for a medical examination. In keeping with preliminary data, three males posing as journalists approached them and opened fireplace. Ahmad and Ashraf had been killed in the assault. The attackers have been held and are being questioned,” Sharma stated.
Police on Sunday registered a case in opposition to the three assailants. SHO of Dhoomanganj police station, Rajesh Kumar Maurya stated the case has been registered in opposition to Lavlesh Tiwari (a resident of Banda), Mohit alias Sunny (Hamirpur) and Arun Maurya (Kasganj). The case has been registered under sections 302 (punishment for homicide), 307 (try to homicide) of the IPC, Arms Act and Prison Regulation Modification Act. Police had additionally recovered the arms used in the crime from the spot. Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath has fashioned a three-member judicial fee to probe the killing of Ahmad and his brother.
In the meantime, two graves, adjoining to one another, had been dug at a graveyard at Kasari Masari on Sunday afternoon. The gravediggers stated police had requested them to dig the graves on the similar place the place Asad was buried a day earlier.
(With inputs from PTI)
BOX Whole state in excessive alert, CM monitoring state of affairs
Lucknow: Security throughout the state, together with at a number of non secular locations, has been beefed up in the wake of sensational killings of gangster brothers Atiq Ahmed and Khalid Azim alias Ashraf, in Prayagraj Saturday evening. Police had been deployed and restrictions had been imposed at VVIPs’ residences even as a excessive alert was sounded in your entire state.
Furthermore, police patrolling was elevated in the delicate districts, together with Prayagraj, Kanpur, Lucknow, Ayodhya, Varanasi, Bareilly and a number of other districts of west UP. Restrictions under section 144 CrPC remained imposed in Prayagraj and different districts.
Chief minister Yogi Adityanath on Sunday cancelled his official engagements to personally monitor the state of affairs and known as up a gathering with senior police officers for the second time in 24 hours. Senior officers of the state police, led by DGP RK Vishwakarma, briefed the chief minister in regards to the state of affairs.
As a security measure, the entry of media individuals has been restricted to five Kalidas Marg, which homes the CM’s official residence.