After the accused in the Umesh Pal murder case were killed in encounters, Samajwadi Party MP Ram Gopal Yadav on Tuesday expressed apprehension that the police would kill one of the sons of gangster-turned-politician Atiq Ahmed in a fake encounter in a few days.
The Uttar Pradesh Police on Tuesday arrested two people including a prison official arrested for allegedly facilitating meets between jailed former MLA Mohammad Ashraf alias Khalid Azim, the younger brother of Bahubali mafia don Atiq Ahmed, and his aides.
The monitoring operation through an aerial view was launched in the jungle area under the Bhopa Police Station limits, along the Uttarakhand-Uttar Pradesh border.
Jailed gangster-turned-politician and former MP Atiq Ahmed's wife, BSP leader Shaista Parveen, has filed a plea before Allahabad District Court claiming that her two sons were taken away by the police.
The Supreme Court on Monday extended the interim bail granted to Congress leader Pawan Khera till Friday and adjourned the plea filed by Pawan Khera seeking clubbing of FIRs against him after the Assam Police and Uttar Pradesh Police sought time to file a reply to his plea.
The Uttar Pradesh Police on Sunday assured to take action against those involved in the Umesh Pal murder and said that multiple teams have been engaged to investigate the case.