Lucknow, April 16 – Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Sunday issued a notification for setting up of a three-member judicial commission that will probe the murders of gangster-turned-politician Atiq Ahmed and his brother Ashraf Ahmed in presence of the police and the media on Saturday night.
Set up under the Commission of Inquiry Act 1952, the panel will be headed by retired high court judge Arvind Kumar Tripathi and comprise retired DGP Subesh Kumar Singh and retired district judge Brijesh Kumar Soni.
The Commission will be submitting its report within two months.
Atiq, Ashraf laid to rest in Prayagraj graveyard
The bodies of killed criminal-politician Atiq Khan and his brother Ashraf were laid to rest in the Kasari Masari graveyard here on Sunday amid heavy police security, with only a few distant relatives and being locals allowed inside the burial ground.
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The bodies were taken to the graveyard after the post-mortem examination and handed over to close relatives.
The post-mortem report stated that Atiq was hit by eight bullets while Ashraf took six bullets.
The brothers were buried in the same graveyard where other family members were laid to rest, including Atiq’s son Asad, who was buried on Saturday after being killed in an encounter in Jhansi on Thursday.
