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The three shooters, who killed gangster-politician Atiq Ahmed and his brother Ashraf in police custody, were produced before a Chief Judicial Magistrate (CJM) court in Prayagraj on Wednesday...
The three assailants -- Mohit alias Sunny (23) of Hamirpur, Lavlesh Tiwari (22) of Banda and Arun Maurya (18) of Kasganj -- are presently in Pratapgarh jail...
On Saturday night, Atiq and Ashraf were shot dead at point-blank range by the three shooters who posed as journalists while the police were taking them to a medical college in Prayagraj for a medical check-up...
When asked whether Atiq's wife Shaista Parveen and Guddu Muslim, who are the absconding accused in the Umesh Pal murder case, the officer stated that both would be arrested soon...
But we will be arresting them soon," Tiwari said.. Apart from Ahmad and Ashraf, four others named in an FIR in connection with the Umesh Pal murder case -- Asad, Arbaaz, Vijay Chaudhary alias Usman and Ghulam -- have also been killed...
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