Ayodhya’s Mahant Raju Das praises UP Police for Asad Ahmed’s encounter, says authorized mafias must depart UP

On Thursday, April 13, Mahant Raju Das, who’s the chief priest on the well-known Hanumangarhi Temple in Ayodhya has launched a “cash reward” of Rs 51,000 for the Uttar Pradesh Police’s Special Task Force (STF), after the UP STF neutralised Asad Ahmed, the son of mafia-turned-politician Atiq Ahmed. It is notable that Asad Ahmed was considered one of many accused inside the Umesh Pal murder case.

Apart from the cash reward, Mahant Raju Das moreover thanked UP CM Yogi Adityanath for the crackdown on the mafias. The Hanumangarhi Temple’s chief priest moreover appealed to the ‘mafias’ that till the time there is a BJP authorities in Uttar Pradesh and Yogi Adityanath is the CM, they should each shut their authorized actions or depart the state. 

“As long as there is a BJP government and Baba (Yogi Adityanath) is the chief minister, you (mafias) should either leave the state or calm down,” Mahant Raju Das talked about.

Moreover, he moreover congratulated the UP Police STF and launched the cash reward for them. In addition to this, the Mahant moreover demanded that the remaining fugitives additionally must be ‘finished’ as in a state like Uttar Pradesh that is dominated by the construction and regulation, the morale of the culprits is so extreme that they carried out bomb assaults whereby police personnel and customary people have been killed. “It is for this reason, we would demand the administration and thank you to Yogi Ji,” Mahant Raju Das concluded.

It is notable that on April 13, 2023, Asad Ahmed, the third son of mafia-turned-politician Atiq Ahmed was gunned down by the UP Police STF in an encounter at Jhansi. Along with Asad, his affiliate Ghulam Muhammad, son of Maksudan, a gunman who assisted Asad in killing Umesh Pal and a few completely different police personnel, was moreover killed.

The UPSTF crew was led by Deputy SP Navendu and Deputy SP Vimal. The police had surrounded them and requested them to surrender. But they chose to battle instead. Both of them have been taken to a hospital after the incident, the place the medical docs launched them launched ineffective. Foreign-made firearms have been recovered on them. It has moreover been reported that Asad Ahmed was engaged to his cousin Mantasha, who’s the daughter of Akhlaq Ahmed, who’s the brother-in-law of Atiq Ahmed and likewise a co-accused inside the Umesh Pal murder case.