PRAYAGRAJ — A crude bomb was hurled in a bylane near the residence of one of the lawyers of slain gangster-turned-politician Atiq Ahmed on April 18, police said. There was no immediate report of any casualty in the explosion that occurred at around 2.30 p.m. in Katra locality, they said. SHO of Kernalganj police station […]
NEW DELHI — After the sensational killing of convicted gangster Atiq Ahmed and his brother Ashraf by three assailants in Prayagraj in the presence of police personnel, a plea has been filed before the Supreme Court seeking an independent inquiry into all encounter killings in Uttar Pradesh since 2017, the year the Yogi Adityanath-led Bharatiya […]
SRINAGAR — PDP chief Mehbooba Mufti on Sunday alleged Atiq Ahmad and his brother’s killing in Uttar Pradesh was a “clever diversionary tactic” to shift attention from the “revelations” made by former Jammu and Kashmir governor Satyapal Malik about the Pulwama attack. Malik, in an interview to a news portal, had claimed that there were […]