LUCKNOW: Saturday’s killing of NCP functionary Baba Siddique in Mumbai has foregrounded disturbing parallels with sensational murders last year of UP gangsters Atiq Ahmed and brother Ashraf in police custody in Prayagraj, as well as the courtroom assassination of Sanjeev Maheshwari in Lucknow. In all three cases, the emerging pattern is that relatively unknown shooters…
LUCKNOW: The judicial commission formed to investigate the murder of gangster-politician Atiq Ahmed and his brother Ashraf in police custody has ruled out the possibility of a “pre-planned conspiracy” or “police negligence”.The commission’s report, comprising 191 pages, was tabled in the Uttar Pradesh Assembly on the last day of the monsoon session on Thursday.Chaired by…
LUCKNOW: A special CBI court in Lucknow on Friday convicted seven people of the murder of BSP MLA Raju Pal in 2005. The court awarded life terms to six convicts and fined them a total of Rs 11.6 lakh. One convict was not present in court and his sentence will be announced later.Gangsters Atiq Ahmed…
