Atiq Ahmed: Former Indian politician and brother shot dead live on TV

A erstwhile Indian person convicted of kidnapping has been changeable dormant unrecorded connected TV on with his brother.

Atiq Ahmed, who was nether constabulary escort facing execution and battle charges, was talking to journalists erstwhile a weapon was pulled adjacent to his head.

After the shots were fired, 3 antheral who had been posing arsenic journalists rapidly surrendered and were taken into custody, section media reported.

Ahmed's teenage lad was changeable dormant by constabulary days earlier.

Ahmed had antecedently claimed determination was a menace to his beingness from the police.

Video showed Ahmed and his brother, Ashraf, speaking to journalists connected the mode to a aesculapian check-up astatine a adjacent infirmary seconds earlier they were some shot.

Atiq Ahmed's teenage lad Asad and different man, wanted successful transportation with a execution case, were killed by constabulary earlier this week successful what was described arsenic a shoot-out.

In the footage, Ahmed is asked whether helium attended his son's funeral, and his past words to camera are: "They did not instrumentality us, truthful we did not go."

The 3 men who had posed arsenic journalists surrendered soon aft the shooting, section media reported. A policeman and a writer were besides injured connected the scene, constabulary said.

Ahmed, who is simply a erstwhile MP, and his member were successful constabulary custody and had been brought to Prayagraj successful Uttar Pradesh, wherever Ahmed was facing execution and battle charges.

He was jailed successful 2019 aft helium was convicted of kidnapping.

Last period India's Supreme Court declined to perceive his petition successful which helium alleged determination was a menace to his beingness from the police.

Uttar Pradesh is governed by the Hindu-nationalist BJP, and absorption parties criticised the killings arsenic a information lapse.

More than a 180 radical facing assorted charges person been killed by constabulary successful Uttar Pradesh authorities successful the past six years. Opposition parties accidental determination is simply a clime of fear.

Rights activists impeach the constabulary of carrying retired other judicial killings, which the state's authorities denies.