Lucknow: A video of some men beating a man, who had been stripped off his clothes, was found on a mobile phone belonging to gangster-turned-mafia Atiq Ahmed's son Asad Ahmed. The video was reportedly shot on January 19, 2021, in a flat in Lucknow. In the video, some men were seen stripping a man before thrashing him repeatedly with a belt.
The police recovered the video from Asad's mobile phone. Police have recovered multiple videos and photos from the mobile phone. In one of the photographs, Asad was seen wearing a suit and captioned it 'Land of the Ultimate Gangster'. Police are further investigating the matter.
Meanwhile, the police on Monday found a blood-stained white scarf and a knife from Atiq Ahmed's Prayagraj office. Apart from this, blood stains have also been found in various places on the ground, notably the stairs at the back of his office. Some utensils were also recovered from his place. However, Asad, who is one of the main accused in Prayagraj's famous Umesh Pal murder case, was killed, along with his accomplice, Ghulam Mohammad, in the encounter on April 13 near Jhansi's Babina road.
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Days after Atiq's son Asad was killed, Atiq Ahmed and his brother Ashraf Ahmed were shot dead while being taken for a medical check-up in Uttar Pradesh's Prayagraj near Colvin Hospital on April 15. Currently, the State government has constituted a judicial commission to investigate Asad's encounter. Apart from this, a judicial commission, observation team and SIT have also been constituted for investigating Atiq Ahmed's murder case.
