Aligarh encounter: Akhilesh forms 6-member panel to probe deaths

  • | Monday | 8th October, 2018

A video of the incident, which later went viral on the social media, purportedly shows activists also vandalizing their vehicles in the presence of policemen, who merely stood there. The team will visit Aligarh on October 10 and will submit its report after inquiring into the matter.Mustaqeem and Naushad, who carried a bounty of Rs 25,000 each on their heads, were killed in an encounter with police in Harduaganj area in Aligarh on September 20. He said the aim of visiting Aligarh is to prepare a fact-sheet of the incident and raise the issue at the highest level if needed.On Saturday, nearly a dozen people, including former SP spokesperson Pankhuri Pathak and film writer Amaresh Mishra , were assaulted by a group of Bajrang Dal activists in Aligarh after they visited the families of the two alleged criminals. AGRA: A six-member team has been constituted by the Samajwadi Party to inquire into the Aligarh encounter in which two alleged criminals, Naushad and Mustaqeem , were killed by the police last month.According to party’s state president Naresh Uttam Patel, the committee formed on the directions of national president Akhilesh Yadav comprises Rajya Sabha MP Surendra Nagar, former ministers, Kamal Akhtar and Omkar Singh Yadav, former MLA Zafar Alam and MLCs, Uday Veer Singh Malik and Dileep Yadav. While SSP Ajay Sahani said the duo had confessed to their involvement in the killing of two sadhus earlier in September, Naushad's mother, Shaheen, refuted the charges, alleging that the police picked up her son and Mustaqeem from their house in Atrauli.MLC Uday Veer Malik told TOI that the team will meet the family members of alleged criminals and also those whose family members were allegedly killed by them.

AGRA: A six-member team has been constituted by the Samajwadi Party to inquire into the Aligarh encounter in which two alleged criminals, Naushad and Mustaqeem , were killed by the police last month.According to party’s state president Naresh Uttam Patel, the committee formed on the directions of national president Akhilesh Yadav comprises Rajya Sabha MP Surendra Nagar, former ministers, Kamal Akhtar and Omkar Singh Yadav, former MLA Zafar Alam and MLCs, Uday Veer Singh Malik and Dileep Yadav. The team will visit Aligarh on October 10 and will submit its report after inquiring into the matter.Mustaqeem and Naushad, who carried a bounty of Rs 25,000 each on their heads, were killed in an encounter with police in Harduaganj area in Aligarh on September 20. While SSP Ajay Sahani said the duo had confessed to their involvement in the killing of two sadhus earlier in September, Naushad's mother, Shaheen, refuted the charges, alleging that the police picked up her son and Mustaqeem from their house in Atrauli.MLC Uday Veer Malik told TOI that the team will meet the family members of alleged criminals and also those whose family members were allegedly killed by them. He said the aim of visiting Aligarh is to prepare a fact-sheet of the incident and raise the issue at the highest level if needed.On Saturday, nearly a dozen people, including former SP spokesperson Pankhuri Pathak and film writer Amaresh Mishra , were assaulted by a group of Bajrang Dal activists in Aligarh after they visited the families of the two alleged criminals. A video of the incident, which later went viral on the social media, purportedly shows activists also vandalizing their vehicles in the presence of policemen, who merely stood there.

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