The top court must intervene to address the violation of the right to life and liberty, and the fact that public interest at large is being affected, it was stressed.
“Murder in any police custody of a person is a very serious act and indicates the failure of police system, there might be 2 aspects that either the Atiq Ashraf murder was a crime committed by some other gangsters or it was a conspiracy involving the system … The concern of this litigation is not to any Atiq or Ashraf murder but a murder which was carried out in a police custody especially when the entire things were very sensitive,” the plea said.
Gangster-turned politician Ahmed was a Member of Parliament between 2004-2009. He was an MLA for 15 years prior to that.
Source: Barandbench
