Aisha Noori, sister of gangster-politician Atiq Ahmed and his brother Ashraf Ahmed, who was shot dead while being in police custody in Uttar Pradesh, has moved the Supreme Court seeking a comprehensive probe by a commission headed by a retired judge of the top court into “custodial and extra-judicial” killings of her family members.
Noori, Meerut-based sister of the slain gangsters, in the petition, said the respondents-police authorities are enjoying the full support of the UP government which appears to have granted them complete impunity to kill, arraign, arrest, and harass members of the petitioner’s family as part of a vendetta.
Noori sought orders for a probe into campaigns of encounter killings, arrests, and harassment of her family by the UP government.
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“The petitioner has uncontestable locus to compel the state to effectively investigate these incidents because her personal liberty under Article 21 is restricted and infringed by the chilling effect produced by the respondents’ campaign against her family. In order to silence the members of the petitioner’s family, the state is roping them one by one in false cases,” said the petition.
Citing Article 21 of the Constitution, the petitioner submitted that it casts a positive procedural obligation on state authorities to effectively investigate the custodial deaths of the petitioner’s family members. She also sought an investigation into the encounter killing of her nephew and Atiq Ahmed’s son.
“The purpose of such an investigation is to ensure the effective implementation of the guarantee of life and liberty under the Constitution and to ensure that wherever state agents and bodies are involved in any case of extra-judicial killing, they are held accountable for the same regardless of their standing and rank,” said the plea.
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