Jailed gangster Lawrence Bishnoi will be questioned regarding the murder of Atiq Ahmed and his brother Ashraf through a foreign-made pistol called Zigana.
On April 15, gangster-turned-politician Atiq Ahmed and his brother Ashraf were shot dead while being taken for a medical checkup in police custody. The killers used Zigana guns, made in Turkey and costing approximately Rs 6 lakh in India’s underground arms market.
Gangster Lawrence Bishnoi, who grabbed headlines in Sidhu Moosewala murder case, is likely to fall under the investigation net in the murder case of former MP Atiq Ahmed and his brother Ashraf.
Atiq Ahmad and Punjabi singer Siddhu Moosewala were both killed in public using illegal Zigana pistols. Manufactured by Turkish company TISAS, Zigana guns are banned in India but used by security companies, military units, and civilians in countries such as the US and the Philippines. Zigana pistols have a locked-slide short recoil operating mechanism with a modified browning-type locking system, feature an automatic firing pin block, and can hold 15 to 17 rounds., India News, Times Now
Gangster-turned-politician Atiq Ahmed, who was gunned down on Saturday, reportedly had links to Pakistan’s ISI and the terror-group Laskar-e-Taiba. The arms used to kill Umesh Pal reportedly came from the neighbouring nation. Even, the Zigana pistol that was fired at Ahmed has a Pakistan connection