TIL Desk/National/Hyderabad/ AIMIM President Asaduddin Owaisi has said the three men who killed former MP Atiq Ahmed and his brother Ashraf in police custody were part of a terror cell. He termed the assailants as terrorists and “illicit” children of Nathuram Godse, the assassin of Mahatma Gandhi.
The Hyderabad MP expressed his apprehension that there may be many more such people who were provided arms and trained and they may carry out more killings. Addressing a public meeting at the historic Mecca Masjid here on the occasion of Jummat-ul-Vida, the last Friday of Ramzan, he noted that none of the UP policemen present there took out their weapons and the assailants after succeeding in their task raised their arms to surrender.
He cited media reports which quoted top police officials as saying that the assailants may have received training for one month and they may have fired 500 rounds before killing the former MP and his brother. Stating that each of the revolvers used by the assailants was worth Rs 8 lakh, Owaisi wondered how these youth acquired the weapons when media reports show that they come from poor families. The MP alleged that the assailants were given arms and training to realize the dream of Godse.
