No pre-planned plot in gangster Atiq Ahmed killing: UP judicial panel | Lucknow Information

LUCKNOW: The judicial fee fashioned to research the homicide of gangster-politician Atiq Ahmed and his brother Ashraf in police custody has dominated out the potential for a “pre-planned conspiracy” or “police negligence”.
The fee’s report, comprising 191 pages, was tabled within the Uttar Pradesh Meeting on the final day of the monsoon session on Thursday.Chaired by Allahabad Excessive Court docket Decide (retired) Arvind Kumar Tripathi, the five-member fee was tasked with probing the homicide of Atiq Ahmed and his brother Ashraf on April 15, 2023.
The fee, in its report, concludes, “The incident of 15 April 2023, through which accused Atiq Ahmed and his brother Khalid Azim alias Ashraf, who have been in police custody remand in reference to the Umesh Pal homicide case underneath Police Station Shahganj, Prayagraj, have been shot useless by three unknown assailants, can’t be stated to be the results of a pre-planned conspiracy executed by the State Police.”
“The incident was not the results of police negligence nor was it attainable for them to keep away from the incident,” it says.
Contemplating that the three assailants who shot useless Atiq and his brother posed as journalists, the fee additionally prompt that the media ought to “observe sure restraints whereas protecting such incidents”. The fee has prompt that the media ought to be regulated and managed by the authorities involved, significantly within the case of any sensational incident.
“Media shall not be allowed to telecast reside any occasion/incident in such a way that it offers the plan/details about the actions of the accused/victims in addition to the actions of the police in reference to the stated incident,” the fee suggests.
“Media shall not be briefed or knowledgeable in regards to the levels of investigation of any crime akin to taking the accused for restoration of incriminating objects,” the fee stated.
“When an investigation is in progress into against the law of public significance, the media ought to keep away from conducting any speak present which can hamper the continued investigation,” it added.
The panel additionally prompt that the government ought to determine hospitals at each district and tehsil ranges for the medical examination of accused people in police custody. A complete checklist of those designated hospitals ought to be distributed to all police stations with strict directions that accused individuals should solely be taken to those listed amenities inside their respective districts or tehsils for medical evaluations.
Designated hospitals, in session with the Director Normal of Medical and Well being Providers, will kind a panel of docs and specialists. This panel might be chargeable for the medical care and examination of accused individuals when they’re taken to the hospital.
Atiq Ahmed and his brother Ashraf, who have been already lodged in Gujarat’s Sabarmati Jail and Bareilly district jail respectively, have been delivered to Prayagraj by the police in reference to the homicide of Umesh Pal, a witness to the 2005 homicide of BSP MLA Raju Pal. Umesh Pal was shot useless outdoors his dwelling in February 2023.