A large cache of illegal weapons was recovered from a house here on the tip-off of an active aide of late mafia-turned-politician Atiq Ahmed's gang, police said on Monday.
The Supreme Court on Friday directed the Uttar Pradesh government to submit a status report on steps taken after the killing of gangster-politician Atiq Ahmed and his brother Ashraf in Prayagraj.
Police here have filed a fresh FIR against gangster-politician Atiq Ahmad s two sons Umar and Ali, who are currently in jail, and four others on charges of attempt to murder and extortion. The FIR was registered at Khuldabad police station on the basis of a complaint lodged by a builder, Mohammad Muslim, police officials said. Atiq Ahmad’s Two Jailed Sons Umar and Ali Among Six Booked for Attempt to Murder, Extortion in Uttar Pradesh.
If ‘new’ India is going to become a country in which the rule of law is ground into the dust by bulldozers, then we must accept that this new India will not be called a democracy.
Singh, a Thakur from Prayagraj, happens to be one of only two UP chief ministers who went on to become Prime Minister of India (the other was Charan Singh).