Atiq Ahmed (right) and his brother Ashraf taking questions from journalists moments before their death

A former Indian politician convicted of kidnapping has been shot dead live on TV along with his brother.

Atiq Ahmed, who was under police escort, was conversing with correspondents when a firearm was pulled near his head in Prayagraj, otherwise called Allahabad.

After the shots were discharged on Saturday night, three men who had been acting like writers immediately gave up and were arrested.

Ahmed's high school child was shot dead by police days sooner.

Many cases, including seizing, murder and blackmail, were enlisted against Atiq Ahmed throughout the course of recent many years. A neighborhood court condemned him and two others to life in prison in Spring this year in a capturing case.

Ahmed had recently guaranteed there was a danger to his own life from the police.

Video showed Ahmed and his sibling, Ashraf, both in cuffs, addressing writers while heading to a clinical examination at a medical clinic seconds before they were both shot.

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  • In the recording, shared generally via online entertainment and Television stations, Ahmed is found out if he went to his child's memorial service.

  • His final words to camera are: "They didn't take us, so we didn't go."

  • The three thought aggressors had shown up at the site on cruisers, the police said. A police officer and a columnist were likewise harmed at the scene.

  • Following Saturday night's episode, Boss Clergyman Yogi Adityanath requested a legal test into the killings and restricted enormous social occasions in the locale of Uttar Pradesh state to guarantee harmony.

  • Specialists have brought up issues on how a man could be killed before the media and the police. BBC Hindi journalist Anant Zanane revealed from Prayagraj that the city was in a lockdown-like circumstance.

  • Who was Atiq Ahmed?

  • He had a long stretch both in governmental issues and with the criminal world. He was first charged in a homicide case in 1979. In the following 10 years, he arose as a tough individual impact in the western piece of Allahabad city.

    He won his most memorable political decision as a free competitor and turned into a state official in 1989. He proceeded to win the seat for two back to back terms and his fourth success came as an official from the provincial Samajwadi party (SP).

    In 2004, he won a seat in the government political decision as a SP competitor and turned into a MP. In the mean time, bodies of evidence kept on being recorded against him in Allahabad and different pieces of the state.

    Ahmed challenged a couple of additional decisions in the following ten years however lost every one of them. In 2019, India's top court requested that he ought to be moved to a prison in Gujarat state after it arose that he arranged assaults on a finance manager from a jail in Uttar Pradesh where he was being held anticipating preliminary for another situation.

    He was gotten back to Prayagraj Walk from Gujarat to show up in a nearby court as it declared his condemning in a seizing case.

    Ahmed was additionally brought to the city to be addressed in different cases. His sibling Ashraf, who was in a prison in Bareilly locale, was likewise brought to the city to be addressed.

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  • Last month India's High Court declined to hear Ahmed's request where he claimed there was a danger to his life from the police.

    Uttar Pradesh is represented by the Hindu-patriot BJP, and resistance groups reprimanded the killings as a security slip by.

    "Wrongdoing has arrived at its top in UP and the confidence of the hoodlums is high," Akhilesh Yadav, boss the resistance Samajwadi Party, tweeted in Hindi.

    "At the point when somebody can be killed in terminating straightforwardly in the midst of the security cordon of the police, then, at that point, what might be said about the wellbeing of the overall population. Because of this, a climate of dread is being made among the general population, it appears to be that certain individuals are intentionally making such an air," he added.

    In excess of 180 individuals having to deal with different penalties have been killed by police in the state in the beyond six years.

    Freedoms activists blame the police for doing extra-legal killings, which the state's administration denies.

    The police generally refers to them as "experiences" - many say these are truly arranged conflicts which constantly end with dead crooks and solid police.

    Experiences did by police are - to some degree - a reaction to India's Grindingly slow and useless law enforcement framework.

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