Atiq Ahmad and Ashraf killings: 5 UP cops suspended for negligence

PRAYAGRAJ: Five police personnel were suspended for negligence in relation to the killings of mafia-politician Atiq Ahmad and his brother Ashraf, a senior officer said in Prayagraj on Wednesday.
Ashwani Kumar Singh, the in-charge of the Shahganj police station, has been suspended along with a sub-inspector and three constables.

All five police officers were questioned by the special investigation team (SIT) on Tuesday, and on the basis of its report, suspensions were made on Wednesday. Atiq and Ashraf were shot dead by three armed assailants inside the campus of MLN Divisional Hospital (Colvin Hospital) under Shahganj police station on Saturday night.

Sources said that commissioner of police (Prayagraj) Ramit Sharma had constituted a three-member SIT to probe the killings. UP DGP further appointed a three-member supervisory team headed by ADG (Prayagraj zone) for quality and time-bound investigations into the matter.

The SIT has taken over the probe into the sensational double murder and recorded the statements of policemen, who were assigned duties for escorting the gangster brothers from the Dhoomanganj police station to Colvin Hospital.
The SIT team also collected the records pertaining to the probe and checked the role and responsibilities of the policemen assigned duties while recording the statements.
The SIT is likely to recreate the crime scene as part of investigations shortly.

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