NB Explains | How did Asad and his accomplice Ghulam's plot to free his father fail?
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The politicians and liberals, who are crying foul over the encounter between Atiq Ahmad's son Asad and his accomplice Ghulam, need to calm down as the FIR gives them all the answers they want.
What did the UP Police plan?
Uttar Pradesh Police said the STF team that shot gangster-politician Atiq Ahmad's son Asad and his accomplice Ghulam dead in an encounter on Thursday tried to capture them alive. But Asad and Ghulam opened indiscriminate fire at STF officials, prompting retaliatory firing that ended in their killing, according to the FIR filed in the case.
How did it happen?
According to the FIR, police teams had received specific input that Asad and Ghulam were seen in Jhansi at night and could be present at Chirgaon on Wednesday night. On Thursday, they were intercepted moving on a motorcycle without a registered number.
Police teams asked them to stop, but they tried to flee taking an unpaved road and slipping into a roadside bush. Asad and Ghulam threatened to kill the police team, abused them, and started firing at them. The police retaliated by firing back at Asad and Ghulam. After some time, there was no firing from their side," the FIR said.
After the firing, the police found Asad and Ghulam injured and were taken to a hospital, where they succumbed to their injuries.
What did Asad and Ghulam plot?
State's Special Director General (Law and Order) Prashant Kumar revealed that teams of civil police and special forces were deployed following the intelligence inputs of a plan by Asad of planning to free his father Atiq Ahmed by attacking police convoy midway as the gangster turned politician was being brought in Uttar Pradesh for hearing.
Their plan was not to free Atiq Ahmed but to embarrass the UP government by carrying out a sensational attack that would have raised questions on Atiq's security.
What did their families say?
Family members of Ghulam refused to claim his dead body, with his mother saying, "The action taken by the government is absolutely correct. All gangsters and criminals will take a lesson from this. I had no idea that he [my son] used to work for gangster Atiq Ahmed. I will not receive his body." The police would perform his last rites.
Asad's last rites would be performed by his family after his maternal uncle collected the body from Jhansi, the family lawyer confirmed on Friday.