Ashraf Ahmed (Atiq Ahmed’s Brother)

Some Lesser Known Facts About Ashraf Ahmed

• Ashraf Ahmed (1974-2023) was a mafia-turned-politician who had more than 50 criminal cases against him and contested many elections from SP. He was wanted in many cases and was captured in 2020. He was killed on 15 April 2023 by three unknown men in Prayagraj.

• Ashraf was known as the right-hand of his brother Atiq Ahmed and was instrumental in orchestrating many land grabs, kidnappings, extortions, and murders.

  

• He was escaping arrest by moving from city to city and changing his hideouts since 2017. He had a reward of Rs 1 lakh on his head.

• He was arrested on 3 July 2020 from a relative’s house after the police department received a tip that he would visit his father-in-law’s house in Hatwa, Prayagraj, Uttar Pradesh.

• Police recovered an illegal pistol of 0.32 bore along with six live cartridges, an SUV, Rs 8,490 cash and two EPIC, PAN card and Driving Licence from him.

• Prem Prakash, Prayagraj ADG, addressed to media and said that he was arrested when he was trying to run away from the police by scaling over the boundary wall of the backyard of the house. He said,
  

  Acting upon a specific tip off that the absconding ex-MLA Khalid Azim alias Ashraf was to arrive his in-law’s house at at Hatwa village under the limits of Puramufti police station, the joint police team has manged to catch the ex-MLA while making an abortive attempt to escape from the relative’s back portion of the house.” ^[15]The Times of India

• Upon his arrest, he was first taken to the Naini Central Jail and was later transferred to the Bareilly Jail.

• Two weeks before his death, Ashraf claimed that he was threatened by a police officer that he would be freed and killed in two weeks. Ashraf said that the office of the Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister, Chief Justice of Allahabad High Court, and Chief Justice of Supreme Court would receive a letter with the name of the police officer who threatened him. ^[16]Dainik Jagran

  

• In 2021, PDA officials demolished his father-in-law’s house in Hatwa village during the drive against mafia and gangsters. ^[17]Hindustan Times

• He submitted a plea in February 2023 in court as he feared that he would be killed on the way to the court. ^[18]India Today

• Around 10:30 pm on 15 April 2023, he was going for a medical checkup with his brother Atiq Ahmed to MLN College in Prayagraj when both brothers were shot dead by three men posing as journalists.

  

• More than 30 rounds were fired and he and Atiq died due to the wounds. Three men threw away their guns and were captured by police. They also chanted Jai Sri Ram before their arrest.

• Section 144 was enforced in the whole of Uttar Pradesh after his killing.

• The identities of the three assailants were revealed as Sunny Singh who belonged to Hamirpur district, Lovelesh Tiwari who belonged to Kotwali in Banda, and Arun Maurya who belonged to village Baghela Pukhta under Soron Kotwali police station in Kasganj.

• It was later revealed that the parents of Arun Maurya aka Kalia died when he was young, and he had not returned to his village for last 15 years.

• Sunny had a criminal history with 17 cases and left his studies when he was in the first year of BA in Lucknow University.

• Lavlesh Tiwari was associated with Bajrang Dal and also had a violent history. ^[19]Hindustan Times

• All three killers asserted during the initial interrogation that they killed Atiq and Ashraf to become famous. ^[20]Times Now