By way of PTI
NEW DELHI: The Ideally suited Court docket has pulled up the Uttar Pradesh executive over the killing of former Lok Sabha member Atiq Ahmad and his brother Ashraf in police custody in Prayagraj on April 15, staring at “anyone is complicit”.
It has additionally sought a standing file from the state executive on 183 “police encounters” that experience taken position since 2017.
In step with the state police, 183 other people had been killed in a large number of police encounters because the Yogi Adityanath executive assumed workplace in March 2017. Yogi’s detractors have frequently claimed a lot of them have been staged.
A bench of Justices S Ravindra Bhat and Aravind Kumar directed the UP executive on Friday to document a sworn statement inside of six weeks giving the main points of those encounters, the standing of the investigation, the fee sheets filed and the standing of the trial.
“There have been 5 to ten other people guarding him (Atiq). How can anyone simply come and shoot? How does this occur? Any individual is complicit,” the bench seen.
It additionally issued realize to the UP executive on a plea by means of Aisha Noori, sister of gangster-politician Ahmad, in search of route for a complete probe into the killing of her brothers.
The highest courtroom, on the other hand, rejected the request of PIL petitioner Vishal Tiwari for the establishment of an impartial judicial fee of enquiry to enter the police encounters and the position of the boys in uniform in those, announcing the state executive has already shaped this kind of fee.
The apex courtroom had previous agreed to listen to the pleas, together with the only filed by means of Aisha Noori, in search of the charter of a fee of enquiry chaired by means of a retired apex courtroom pass judgement on into the “extra-judicial” killing of her brothers.
Ahmad (60) and Ashraf have been shot useless at point-blank vary by means of 3 males posing as reporters in the course of a media interplay whilst police body of workers have been escorting them to a clinical school for exam on April 15.
All of the taking pictures was once captured survive nationwide tv.
In a sworn statement filed within the best courtroom, the Uttar Pradesh executive mentioned the state is “leaving no stone unturned in making sure a radical, independent and well timed investigation” into the deaths of Ahmad and Ashraf.
It mentioned the standing file contained within the affidavit offers with an enquiry into the April 15 incident, steps taken in terms of the deaths of Mohd Asad Khan, son of Ahmad, and Mohd Ghulam on April 13, and in addition the measures initiated to enforce the suggestions of the Justice B S Chauhan Fee.
Former apex courtroom pass judgement on Justice Chauhan headed the fee that probed the come across killing of gangster Vikas Dubey in 2020.
Dubey and his males had ambushed and killed 8 policemen at his local Bikru village in Kanpur district in July 2020.
He was once arrested in Ujjain in Madhya Pradesh and was once being introduced again in Uttar Pradesh police’s custody when he allegedly attempted to flee and was once shot useless.
Doubts have been raised concerning the genuineness of the police come across.
The standing file gave the main points concerning the steps taken to enforce the suggestions of the Justice Chauhan Fee, which had concluded that the police model of the deaths of Dubey and his pals in retaliatory firing incidents within the days following his come across killing may no longer be doubted.
It mentioned there was an overhaul of manpower reform and a complete of 10,877 posts at more than a few ranges had been created within the police division from April 11, 2021, until date.
“Additional, motion on requisitioning of one,12,177 posts of more than a few cadres may be below growth,” it mentioned.
The standing file mentioned the police division has additionally gone through a modernisation, following the acquisition of jail trucks, drones, postmortem kits and more than a few different automobiles.
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It mentioned the selection of forensic science laboratories has greater from 8 to twelve with new amenities having been established in Kannauj, Aligarh, Gonda and Bareilly.
The method of putting in place FSLs in six extra towns — Basti, Mirzapur, Azamgarh, Banda, Ayodhya and Saharanpur — may be underway.
Whilst listening to Tiwari’s plea on April 28, the highest courtroom had wondered the Uttar Pradesh executive why Ahmad and Ashraf, a former MLA, have been paraded prior to the media whilst being taken to a health facility for a clinical checkup in police custody.
The suggest showing for Uttar Pradesh had advised the courtroom the state has constituted a three-member fee of inquiry to probe the incident.
A unique investigation workforce (SIT) of Uttar Pradesh Police may be investigating the case, the suggest had mentioned.
NEW DELHI: The Ideally suited Court docket has pulled up the Uttar Pradesh executive over the killing of former Lok Sabha member Atiq Ahmad and his brother Ashraf in police custody in Prayagraj on April 15, staring at “anyone is complicit”.
It has additionally sought a standing file from the state executive on 183 “police encounters” that experience taken position since 2017.
In step with the state police, 183 other people had been killed in a large number of police encounters because the Yogi Adityanath executive assumed workplace in March 2017. Yogi’s detractors have frequently claimed a lot of them have been staged.googletag.cmd.push(serve as() googletag.show(‘div-gpt-ad-8052921-2’); );
A bench of Justices S Ravindra Bhat and Aravind Kumar directed the UP executive on Friday to document a sworn statement inside of six weeks giving the main points of those encounters, the standing of the investigation, the fee sheets filed and the standing of the trial.
“There have been 5 to ten other people guarding him (Atiq). How can anyone simply come and shoot? How does this occur? Any individual is complicit,” the bench seen.
It additionally issued realize to the UP executive on a plea by means of Aisha Noori, sister of gangster-politician Ahmad, in search of route for a complete probe into the killing of her brothers.
The highest courtroom, on the other hand, rejected the request of PIL petitioner Vishal Tiwari for the establishment of an impartial judicial fee of enquiry to enter the police encounters and the position of the boys in uniform in those, announcing the state executive has already shaped this kind of fee.
The apex courtroom had previous agreed to listen to the pleas, together with the only filed by means of Aisha Noori, in search of the charter of a fee of enquiry chaired by means of a retired apex courtroom pass judgement on into the “extra-judicial” killing of her brothers.
Ahmad (60) and Ashraf have been shot useless at point-blank vary by means of 3 males posing as reporters in the course of a media interplay whilst police body of workers have been escorting them to a clinical school for exam on April 15.
All of the taking pictures was once captured survive nationwide tv.
In a sworn statement filed within the best courtroom, the Uttar Pradesh executive mentioned the state is “leaving no stone unturned in making sure a radical, independent and well timed investigation” into the deaths of Ahmad and Ashraf.
It mentioned the standing file contained within the affidavit offers with an enquiry into the April 15 incident, steps taken in terms of the deaths of Mohd Asad Khan, son of Ahmad, and Mohd Ghulam on April 13, and in addition the measures initiated to enforce the suggestions of the Justice B S Chauhan Fee.
Former apex courtroom pass judgement on Justice Chauhan headed the fee that probed the come across killing of gangster Vikas Dubey in 2020.
Dubey and his males had ambushed and killed 8 policemen at his local Bikru village in Kanpur district in July 2020.
He was once arrested in Ujjain in Madhya Pradesh and was once being introduced again in Uttar Pradesh police’s custody when he allegedly attempted to flee and was once shot useless.
Doubts have been raised concerning the genuineness of the police come across.
The standing file gave the main points concerning the steps taken to enforce the suggestions of the Justice Chauhan Fee, which had concluded that the police model of the deaths of Dubey and his pals in retaliatory firing incidents within the days following his come across killing may no longer be doubted.
It mentioned there was an overhaul of manpower reform and a complete of 10,877 posts at more than a few ranges had been created within the police division from April 11, 2021, until date.
“Additional, motion on requisitioning of one,12,177 posts of more than a few cadres may be below growth,” it mentioned.
The standing file mentioned the police division has additionally gone through a modernisation, following the acquisition of jail trucks, drones, postmortem kits and more than a few different automobiles.
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It mentioned the selection of forensic science laboratories has greater from 8 to twelve with new amenities having been established in Kannauj, Aligarh, Gonda and Bareilly.
The method of putting in place FSLs in six extra towns — Basti, Mirzapur, Azamgarh, Banda, Ayodhya and Saharanpur — may be underway.
Whilst listening to Tiwari’s plea on April 28, the highest courtroom had wondered the Uttar Pradesh executive why Ahmad and Ashraf, a former MLA, have been paraded prior to the media whilst being taken to a health facility for a clinical checkup in police custody.
The suggest showing for Uttar Pradesh had advised the courtroom the state has constituted a three-member fee of inquiry to probe the incident.
A unique investigation workforce (SIT) of Uttar Pradesh Police may be investigating the case, the suggest had mentioned.