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Following his shooting, gatherings of more than four people were banned Sunday across the crime-rife northern state of 200 million people that is ruled by the Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party.

Viewers were horrified when a former Indian politician and his brother were fatally shot, live to air, with local media reporting that one of the gunmen was carrying a television camera and another had a microphone with the logo of a television channel.

Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Saturday ordered a high-level probe into the murder of gangster-turned-politician Atiq Ahmad and his brother Khalid Azeem alias Ashraf in Prayagraj.

, April 16 (IANS) A 40-year-old man allegedly killed his wife and two minor children because he suspected her of having an extra-marital affair.The man, identified as Indrapal Nishad, hanged himself after committing the murders.Nishad, who ...

New Delhi, April 16: (Agencies) Gangster-turned-politician Atiq Ahmad and his brother Ashraf Ahmad were shot dead live on camera while being taken for a medical check-up in Prayagraj on Saturday. What we know so far: Atiq and his brother were talking to the media when they were killed near Dhoomanganj police station around 10 pm.

Police said they found that criminal cases had been registered in the past against two of the three arrested – 22-year-old Lavlesh Tiwari and 23-year-old Sunny Puraney. The background of the third – 18-year-old Arun Kumar Maurya – is being ascertained, police said.

Gangster-turned-politician Atiq Ahmad and his brother Ashraf were shot dead at point-blank range by three men posing as journalists in the middle of a media interaction on Saturday night.

After carrying out brutal attack, assailants were chanting Hindu slogans, TV clip in northern city of Prayagraj showed

Three persons posing as journalists approached them and opened fire

The MP was deeply involved in India's criminal underworld and had been jailed since 2019