Hyderabad MP and AIMIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi raised questions over the encounter of gangster Atiq Ahmad’s son Asad and his aide Ghulam in Uttar Pradesh’s Jhansi and said that the “so-called encounters should not take place”.
Owaisi said:”There would be an inquiry as per the Supreme Court guidelines, but that “so-called encounters should not take place”,” Owaisi said .
“Indeed, whether it is Umesh Pal or Raju Pal, we have sympathy for them. Because, those people were murdered. How can we support those who committed the murder?
But, there is a process, law, and Constitution. You get them punishment. Who is stopping you? You get them life imprisonment. When you have video evidence why don’t you use it,” he said.
Amid attacks from the opposition over the encounter, the UP’s Special Task Force (STF) personnel condemned the killing of Umesh Pal, calling it an assault on the state’s criminal justice system.
Asad and his aide Ghulam, who was involved in the killing of Umesh Pal, a key witness to the murder of BSP leader Raju Pal, were gunned down by the STF .
