Key Points
Asad and Ghulam fell down as they sped their bike after being intercepted by the cops..
They started abusing the cops and opened fire, the FIR said.. Uttar Pradesh police which gunned down Asad Ahmad and his aide Ghulam in an encounter in Jhansi on Thursday said the intention was to catch them alive but as gangster-turned-politician Atiq Ahmad's son Asad and Ghulam opened indiscriminate fire, the officials of the special task force started retaliation in which the duo were killed, according to the FIR filed in the case..
Asad and Ghulam were spotted on a motorcycle without a registered number on Thursday..
"The members of both the (STF) teams, who had surrounded them, tried to reach within their firing range without caring for their lives and tried to catch them alive, but had to return fire in self-defence in view of the indiscriminate firing from the miscreants," the FIR said...
"I think they died 1.30-2 hours before they were brought here," he said.. Police said Asad and Ghulam, both wanted in the Umesh Pal murder case, hatched a plan to free Atiq Ahmad by attacking the police convoy which was bringing Atiq Ahmad to Uttar Pradesh for the hearing...
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