With gangster-politician Atiq Ahmad and his brother Ashraf shot dead by assailants in Prayagraj on Saturday, three of the family’s four members named in the Umesh Pal murder case have been killed.
Ten people were named in the FIR registered at the Dhoomanganj police station of Prayagraj on February 25, a day after Umesh Pal was killed. Ahmad’s son Asad was also named as a shooter, along with six others.
Apart from Ahmad and Ashraf, four others named in the FIR — Asad, Arbaaz, Vijay Chaudhary alias Usman and Ghulam — have also been killed. Ahmad’s wife Shaista Parveen and three other alleged shooters are absconding.
Umesh Pal was a key witness in the 2005 MLA Raju Pal murder case, in which Ahmad was also an accused.
Of the seven people seen in the CCTV footage that captured the killing of Umesh Pal, Arbaaz, who allegedly drove a sports utility vehicle (SUV) carrying the attackers, was killed in an encounter on February 27.
Shooter Vijay Chaudhary alias Usman was killed in an encounter in Prayagraj on March 6. Asad and Ghulam were killed in another encounter with the Uttar Pradesh Special Task Force in Jhansi on April 13.
The three remaining shooters — Guddu Muslim, Sabir and Armaan — are absconding. Parveen is also on the run.