Former Indian politician Atiq Ahmed and his brother Ashraf were shot dead on live television in the company of the Uttar Pradesh State Police. in the north of the country.
Ahmed speaking to reporters on Saturday night Three people who infiltrated the group of reporters shouted “Greetings to Ram” and opened fire on him and his brother., a Hindu rallying cry in their attack on the Muslim minority in the country. According to the Indian channel NDTV, the police managed to arrest the three attackers.
Ahmed, former MP and brother was in police custody and reached the town of Prayagraj in Uttar Pradesh, to be judged murder.
Both were arrested in April in connection with the February death of Umesh Pal, a key witness in the 2005 murder of regional Bahujan Samaj party (BSP) MP Raju Pal.
Uttar Pradesh is run by the ruling Hindu nationalist Indian People’s Party, and opposition parties have criticized the killings as a security flaw.
Akhilesh Yadav, leader of the opposition Samajwadi Party, said in Hindi, “Crime has peaked in Uttar Pradesh and criminal morale is skyrocketing.”