New Delhi: Three days after gangster-turned-politician Atiq Ahmed and his brother were shot dead in the middle of a media interaction in Uttar Pradesh's Prayagraj, letters of wife Shaista Parveen surfaced which she had written to Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath and Chief Justice of the Allahabad High Court seeking for a CBI or judicial investigation into the killing of Umesh Pal. In two separate letters, she claimed that Atiq, his brother Ashraf and his sons were falsely implicated in the murder case and that they had no reason to kill Pal.
Umesh Pal, a key witness in the 2005 Raju Pal murder case, was killed on February 24 outside his residence in Prayagraj.
Parveen, who is among the accused and has been on the run ever since, claimed that Cabinet Minister Nand Gopal Gupta - also known as 'Nandi' - was the key conspirator of the killing of Umesh Pal, therefore an investigation was necessary. Gupta is the sitting MLA from Prayagraj.
In the letter to CM Adityanath written on February 27, she also alleged that the Paraygaraj Police were working under the pressure of Gupta. She also named Prayagraj Commissioner Ramit Sharma and STF ADG Amitabh Yash, who she said were planning to eliminate Atiq and Ashraf.
"If you (CM Adityanath) don't intervene, my husband, brother-in-law, and sons would be killed," she wrote in the letter.
Atiq Ahmed and his brother Ashraf were shot dead at point-blank range by three men posing as journalists on Saturday night while police personnel was escorting them to a medical college in Prayagraj for a checkup.
The assailants were caught on the spot.
On Thursday, Asad Ahmed, son of now-deceased Atiq Ahmed, the prime accused in the Umesh Pal murder case, was killed in an encounter by the Uttar Pradesh Special Task Force (STF). Another gangster Ghulam was also killed in the encounter.