The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has taken cognizance of complaints concerning the killings of Mafia turned politician Atiq Ahmed and his brother Ashraf by miscreants in police custody in the Prayagraj district of Uttar Pradesh on 15th April, 2023. NHRC has issued notices to the director general of police of Uttar Pradesh RK Vishwakarma and the commissioner of police, Prayagraj, Ramit Sharma asking them to submit a detailed report within four weeks in the killings of gangster-politician Atiq Ahmed and his brother Ashraf on Saturday. The complaints received by NHRC, alleged that two brothers were killed by miscreants in public custody.
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NHRC has asked the DGP and CP Prayagraj to provide in detail all circumstances from the time of the arrest of Atiq and his brother until their killings. According to NHRC, the report should cover all the “aspects leading to death, copy of complaint and FIR registered against the deceased; copy of arrest memo and inspection memo; whether information of arrest was given to family/relatives, copy of seizure memo and recovery memo, copy of medical legal certificate of the deceased and copies of all relevant general diary extracts, which it said must be legible and transcribed in English/Hindi”.
The NHRC guidelines for police personnel on various human rights issues state that “a person detained by the police, whether for questioning, for the purpose of verification of identity, to test alcohol level, etc., comes under the custody of police and is, therefore, under the care of the State.”
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