Atiq Ahmed's son Asad killed: A look at encounters under Yogi govt in UP

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The result of this policy is before everyone today, he said, adding that 183 criminals have been killed so far in encounters with the police in the state...

The senior police officer was addressing the media hours after gangster-politician Atiq Ahmeds son Asad, wanted in the Umesh Pal murder case, was killed in an encounter by the Uttar Pradesh Special Task Force (STF) in Jhansi...

- Moti Singh, accused of allegedly murdering a constable from the Sidhpura police station and injuring a sub-inspector in Kasganj earlier, was killed in an encounter by the state police on February 21, 2021...

- Asad, the son of mafia-turned-politician Atiq Ahmed, and Ghulam, the son of Maksudan, wanted in the Umesh Pal murder case, were killed in an encounter with the UPSTF team at Jhansi today..

As per news reports, in the last six years of the Yogi Adityanath government, the state police have killed 183 criminals or accused in 10,713 encounters across the state, according to official data..