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Lucknow: Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) President Mayawati said on Tuesday that the action taken by the police so far after the Umesh Pal murder case in Prayagraj has raised widespread doubts among the public about the rule of law and the whole country is watching whether The government will adopt the method of eliminating criminals on the streets. In two series of tweets, Mayawati has raised serious questions on the police action in the Umesh Pal murder case.
He said, “After the Umesh Pal murder case in Prayagraj, the police action taken in this regard in a very hasty manner, which has come in front of the public, has raised doubts among the people about the rule of law in the state, whether the government is correcting its failures. Another ‘Vikas Dubey scandal’ will do to cover up. Vikas Dubey was the main accused in the July 2020 ambush killing of eight policemen in Bikru village of Kanpur Dehat.
He was killed in an alleged encounter with the Special Task Force (STF) of the state police while being brought from Madhya Pradesh to Kanpur. In the case of last month’s murder of Umesh Pal and his two security personnel in Prayagraj, the family members of former MP Atiq Ahmed, the prime accused, have expressed apprehension that Ahmed, his brother and sons may have been killed in a fake encounter.
1. Information has also been published about the registration of an FIR against Atiq Ahmed’s son and his wife in connection with the murder of advocate Umesh Pal and his gunner, an important witness in Raju Pal’s murder case that took place years ago in Prayagraj. 1/4
— Mayawati (@Mayawati) February 27, 2023
Mayawati said in another tweet, “Though the government is under a lot of tension and pressure in the matter of law and order due to the murder of Umesh Pal, the witness of the old Raju Pal murder case, in broad daylight, but the whole country is watching whether the government will follow the law by law. Will she follow the rule or stop crime by eliminating criminals from the streets? It may be noted that in an audacious incident in Prayagraj on February 24, armed miscreants shot dead Umesh Pal, the key witness in the former MLA Raju Pal murder case, and his two security personnel.
In this case, on the complaint of Umesh Pal’s wife Jaya Pal, a case was registered against former MP Atiq Ahmed, his brother Ashraf, his wife Shaista Parveen, his two sons, his accomplices Guddu Muslim and Ghulam and nine others at Dhumanganj police station. . Arbaaz and Vijay Chowdhary, who are said to be involved in the case, have been killed in alleged encounters with the police on February 27 and March 6 respectively. At a press conference in Prayagraj on Monday, the family of Atiq Ahmed expressed the apprehension that Ahmed, his brothers and sons may be killed in a fake encounter and appealed to Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath for help.
