Like the 2013 Muzaffarnagar riots polarised the state along Hindu-Muslim lines in the run-up to the 2014 LS polls, the Atiq-Ashraf killings threaten to do the sameahead of the big battle in 2024
In the last two decades, however, fact and fiction about the badlands of UP have taken a larger-than-life dimension thanks to many films and television series
Uttar Pradesh’s Special Director General of Police, Prashant Kumar has said the crackdown by the Yogi Adityanath government on gangster politician Atiq Ahmed’s illicit empire and other mafia is part of concerted efforts to stamp out gangsterism in the state.