NEW DELHI, Apr 24: Uttar Pradesh Police is claimed to have found bloodstains inside the partially demolished office of gangster-politician Atiq Ahmed in Prayagraj who was shot dead earlier this month.
“I have examined myself, bloodstains, the knife was found near the staircase and next to the kitchen of Atiq’s office,” Satyendra Prasad Tiwari, Prayagraj Additional Commissioner of Police (ACP), said on Monday.
“The FSL team is about to reach, and the investigation will be done. CCTV footage will also be examined,” he added. Further investigation is underway.
On Sunday, the UP government constituted a two-member judicial commission to probe into the killings of Atiq Ahmed’s son Asad who along with his co-accused Ghulam were shot dead in an encounter with the police in Jhansi on April 13.
Asad and Ghulam were accused in the Umesh Pal murder case. The committee will be headed by Retired High Court judge Rajeev Lochan Mehrotra and retired DG Vijay Kumar Gupta. Atiq Ahmed and his brother Ashraf were shot dead by men posing as mediapersons on April 15 night while being taken for a medical examination in Prayagraj. Both the gangsters collapsed on the spot after they were shot at nearly point-blank range.
Atiq Ahmed was accused in the 2005 Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) MLA Raju Pal murder case and also in the murder case of Umesh Pal which happened in February this year.
(Manas Dasgupta)