Nidhi Razdan explains Atiq Ahmed killing

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00:00No, it wasn't a Bollywood film, but real life. What unfolded on Indian television live on

00:10Saturday night was unprecedented. Gangster-turned-politician Ateeq Ahmed and his brother Ashraf, who were

00:16being taken for a routine medical check-up while in judicial custody, were shot dead

00:21at point-blank range, right in front of millions of people and right under the nose of the

00:26UP police. The incident has raised disturbing questions on the role of the police, what

00:31exactly they were doing, and law and order and due process in Uttar Pradesh. Just days

00:36earlier, Ateeq Ahmed's son Asad was killed in a police encounter, which happened to be

00:40the 183rd encounter under the Yogi Adityanath government in the last six years. And these

00:46are some of the issues that we're exploring in this week's column.