New Delhi, April 17 (). A day after gangster-turned-politician Ateeq Ahmed and his brother Ashraf were killed in police protection, a petition has been filed in the Supreme Court. In this, a committee has been constituted under the chairmanship of a former Supreme Court judge and a demand has been made to investigate the murder case.
Advocate Vishal Tiwari on Sunday filed a petition in the apex court seeking an independent expert committee and also probe into the 183 encounters in Uttar Pradesh since 2017.
Ahmed and his brother Ashraf were shot at by three assailants disguised as journalists when they were being taken by policemen to a medical college in Uttar Pradesh’s Prayagraj for a check-up on Saturday night.
The petition states that fake police encounters have no place under law and that in a democratic society the police cannot be allowed to become a method of dispensing final justice, as the power to punish rests only with the judiciary. Is contained.
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