Asad Ahmed Encounter News LIVE: The reward for anyone providing information leading to the arrest of Atiq Ahmed’s son Asad and close aide Ghulam was increased to Rs 5 lakh from Rs 2.5 lakh recently
Asad Atiq Ahmed Encounter LIVE Updates: Asad, son of jailed gangster Atiq Ahmed, and one Ghulam were shot dead by Uttar Pradesh STF during an encounter in Jhansi. Both were wanted in Umesh Pal’s murder case.
Till last year, young Asad Ahmed did not have any criminal case lodged against him. But by February this year, he became the ‘most wanted’ man in Uttar Pradesh after leading half-a-dozen shooters who killed Umesh Pal in broad daylight on a busy street in Prayagraj on February 24.
Mohammed Ghulam, a close aide of Atiq Ahmed, was another accused in the case. In March, the Prayagraj administration deployed bulldozers to demolish his home. Ghulam hd been missing since Pal’s murder. Rs 5 lakh reward was on head of both Asad and Ghulam.
“Asad and Ghulam were wanted in the Umesh Pal murder case of Prayagraj and were carrying a reward of Rs 5 lakh each. They were killed in an encounter with the UP STF team,” said Special Additional Director General (Law and Order) Prasahant Kumar.
“The UP STF team was led by Deputy SP Navendu and Vimal. Sophisticated foreign made weapons were recovered from the accused,” the officer added.
Ghulam’s brother was reportedly associated with the BJP minority cell. Officials said that some policemen were also injured in the encounter.
Umesh Pal was the the key witness in the BSP MLA Raju Pal murder case. Both Umesh and his police security guard Sandeep Nishad were shot dead outside his home in Prayagraj’s Dhoomanganj, following which his wife, Jaya Pal, filed a case.
She named gangster-politician Atiq Ahmed, his brother Ashraf, wife Shaista Parveen, two sons, aides Guddu Muslim and Ghulam, and nine others in the FIR.
The FIR was lodged under sections 147 (rioting), 148 (rioting armed with deadly weapons), 149 (unlawful assembly guilty of offence committed in prosecution of common object), 302 (murder), 307 (attempt to murder) and 506 (criminal intimidation) of the IPC.
Two other men linked to Umesh Pal’s murder — Arbaaz and Vijay Chowdhary alias Usman — were also killed in encounters on February 27 and March 6 respectively.
Source : News18
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