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Atiq-Ashraf murder: UP SIT seeks remand of three assailants

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Express News Service

LUCKNOW: The specific investigation crew (SIT) formed to probe the killings of gangster-politician Atiq Ahmed and his brother Ashraf has sought the remand of three assailants on Tueday. The SIT moved to the courtroom of Chief Judicial Magistrate on Tuesday day with its plea for custody.

Atiq and Ashraf had been shot lifeless at point-blank range by three males posing as journalists on Saturday night whereas police personnel had been escorting them to a medical faculty in Prayagraj for a check-up.

The three assailants — Mohit alias Sunny of Hamirpur, Lavlesh Tiwari of Banda and Arun Maurya of Kasganj — are presently in Pratapgarh jail and may be produced sooner than the CJM courtroom on Wednesday. All three are in the mean time positioned beneath a 14-day judicial remand.

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Hearing the SIT’s software program, CJM Dinesh Kumar Gautam directed the police to produce the three accused throughout the courtroom on Wednesday. The courtroom talked about that sufficient security preparations must be ensured for them whereas being launched from the jail to the courtroom.

Having recorded the assertion of the three accused with the permission of the courtroom, the SIT is now on the lookout for their custody remand to assemble proof as part of the investigation into Atiq-Ashraf double murder. On Tuesday evening, the police inspected the entire routes ensuing within the CJM courtroom to plan the protection organize for bringing the three accused from Pratapgarh jail.

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LUCKNOW: The specific investigation crew (SIT) formed to probe the killings of gangster-politician Atiq Ahmed and his brother Ashraf has sought the remand of three assailants on Tueday. The SIT moved to the courtroom of Chief Judicial Magistrate on Tuesday day with its plea for custody.

Atiq and Ashraf had been shot lifeless at point-blank range by three males posing as journalists on Saturday night whereas police personnel had been escorting them to a medical faculty in Prayagraj for a check-up.

The three assailants — Mohit alias Sunny of Hamirpur, Lavlesh Tiwari of Banda and Arun Maurya of Kasganj — are presently in Pratapgarh jail and may be produced sooner than the CJM courtroom on Wednesday. All three are in the mean time positioned beneath a 14-day judicial remand.googletag.cmd.push(carry out() googletag.present(‘div-gpt-ad-8052921-2′); );

WATCH | Crude bomb hurled near residence of Atiq Ahmed’s lawyer Dayashankar Mishra

Hearing the SIT’s software program, CJM Dinesh Kumar Gautam directed the police to produce the three accused throughout the courtroom on Wednesday. The courtroom talked about that sufficient security preparations must be ensured for them whereas being launched from the jail to the courtroom.

Having recorded the assertion of the three accused with the permission of the courtroom, the SIT is now on the lookout for their custody remand to assemble proof as part of the investigation into Atiq-Ashraf double murder. On Tuesday evening, the police inspected the entire routes ensuing within the CJM courtroom to plan the protection organize for bringing the three accused from Pratapgarh jail.

ALSO READ | After Atiq murder, cops’ focus shifts to absconding partner Shaista to unravel reality in Umesh Pal case