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Hours after Asad was interred, Atiq Ahmad and Ashraf, who were in handcuffs, were shot dead at point-blank range by three men posing as journalists when they were answering reporters' queries while being escorted by police personnel to a medical college for a check-up.

In a startling change of events, three attackers acting as journalists opened fire on Ahmed and his brother Ashraf while they were having a media interview on Saturday night in Prayagraj.They were shot and killed in front of the camera as they attempted to answer questions from the media after getting out of the police jeep while being encircled by police officers.

As per an FIR registered at the Shahganj police station, Atiq Ahmed admitted to having links with Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) and terror group Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT).

Gangster-turned-politicianAtiq Ahmed and his brother Ashraf were shot dead at point-blank range by three men posing as journalists during a media interaction on Saturday in Prayagraj.

Atiq Ahmed and his brother Ashraf were shot dead by three assailants on Sunday late evening when police were taking them for a medical check-up in Prayagraj.The AIMIM chiefdemanded the resignation of CM Yogi Adityanath. He further asked for Supreme Court panel to probe the incident.

"Jungle raj" and "mafia raj" were some of the words used to describe Uttar Pradesh and even India by opposition leaders as they hit out at the BJP government over the murder of Atiq Ahmed and his brother Ashraf.

Gangster-turned-politician Atiq Ahmed and his brother Ashraf were shot dead in the presence of police while they were being taken for medical examination. Atiq Ahmed’s last words, captured on camera, were “Nahi le gaye to nahi gaye [they did not take us, so we did not go]" after he was asked what did he have to say on not being taken to his son Asad’s burial.

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

Reacting to this incident, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath took cognizance of the same and immediately called a high-level meeting and ordered a high-level inquiry into the entire matter.

The 16-year-old boy, who hails from Bihar, was apprehended a teenager from Lucknow who is believed to have sent an email to a media house, threatening to assassinate Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath.