New Delhi: Three days after gangster-turned-politician Atiq Ahmed and his brother were shot dead in Uttar Pradesh's Prayagraj, Atiq's lawyer on Tuesday said that a letter with instructions to send it to the Chief Justice of India DY Chandrachud and Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath in case of his death is being dispatched to them, reported news agency PTI.
The "secret letter" was allegedly written by Ahmed two weeks before his death.
"That letter in a sealed envelope is neither with me nor sent by me. It is kept somewhere else and being sent by some other person. I don't know the contents of the letter," said his lawyer Vijay Mishra.
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.
"Atiq Ahmad had said that if there were any mishap or if he was murdered, the letter in the sealed envelope should be sent to the chief justice of India and Uttar Pradesh chief minister," Mishra told PTI.
The brothers, both jailed in Prayagraj, were in handcuffs when they were killed in full view of camera crews. The last rites of Ahmed's son Asad, who was gunned down in a police encounter in Jhansi on April 13, were performed here just hours before the shooting.
Ahmed had moved the Supreme Court for protection, claiming that he and his family have been falsely implicated in the Umesh Pal murder case and he might be killed in a fake encounter by the Uttar Pradesh Police.
Meanwhile, a post-mortem examination of both bodies revealed that Atiq was hit by eight bullets and Ashraf by six bullets.
According to the report, Atiq suffered one bullet wound to the head, one to the neck, two on the chest, and the remaining bullets in various parts of his body, including the stomach and hand. One bullet was lodged in the upper part of Atiq's head from the left temple.
Ashraf, on the other hand, was shot twice in the head, with bullets also found in his throat, chest, and abdomen.