Gangster Atiq Ahmed's Killers Were Inspired By Lawrence Bishnoi: Sources
NDTV
The three killers were identified by the police as Lovelesh Tiwari, Sunny Singh and Arun Maurya.
The three men who shot and killed gangster-turned-politician Atiq Ahmed, and his brother Ashraf, were inspired by jailed gangster Lawrence Bishnoi, sources have said.
The three killers were identified by the police as Lovelesh Tiwari, Sunny Singh and Arun Maurya. They came posing as journalists and shot Ahmed and his brother at point-blank range while they were speaking to reporters in Uttar Pradesh's Prayagraj.
According to sources, the shooters made some big disclosures during their interrogation. The entire operation to kill Ahmed was planned by Sunny Singh who watched interviews and videos of Bishnoi. Singh reportedly got heavily influenced by Bishnoi's communally charged speeches and dreamt of a "big kill" like that of musician Sidhu Moose Wala who was gunned down allegedly by members of Bishnoi's gang on May 29 last year.
Singh is the most dangerous of the three men who shot Ahmed with more than a dozen cases registered against him. It was Singh who brought Tiwari and Maurya together to carry out the shootout, sources have said.
