Prayagraj: Uttar Pradesh Police has claimed that gangster-turned-politician Atiq Ahmad and his brother Ashraf who were shot dead on live TV by three men while in police custody in Prayagraj on Saturday, used to receive weapons from across the border in Pakistan. Police sources said that Atiq Ahmed had ordered AK 47, .45 Pistol, Stengun and RDX from Pakistan via Punjab and he had also paid for it.
Police sources said that the smuggler through whom Atiq used to get foreign weapons from Punjab, was the same who used to supply arms to the separatist militants fighting the security forces in Kashmir. “Atiq had said that the organization supplying the arms and ammunition was “trying to do something big.
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All these revelations were made by Atiq in police custody remand,” a police official said. He said that Atiq Ahmed had told the police that he used to get foreign weapons and cartridges from Pakistan with the help of drones adding these weapons were dropped in Punjab through drones and then supplied to Atiq Ahmad in UP from there.
“Atiq and Ashraf knew the smuggler who used to get them these weapons,” added the police official. He claimed that apart from Prayagraj, Atiq and Ashraf kept the arms and ammunition coming from Pakistan at their hideouts built in many districts of UP. The court had also given four-day custody remand of Atiq Ahmed and Ashraf to the police.
But, on Saturday night, Atiq Ahmed and Ashraf were shot dead on live TV by three men identified as Lovelesh Tewari, Sunny Singh, and Arun Maurya while in police custody. Atiq was the main accused in the Umesh Pal murder case. On Mar. 28, he was convicted by a MP/MLA court in Umesh Pal's abduction. Umesh Pal was the key witness in murder of Raju Pal, a BSP MLA.
