Justifying their determination to let murdered gangster-turned-politician Atiq Ahmad’s spouse Shaista Parveen stay within the occasion, a Bahujan Samaj Get together (BSP) MLA mentioned that it wasn’t Atiq who joined the occasion however his spouse and so they even wished her to contest mayoral elections.
BSP MLA Umahsankar Singh instructed information company ANI, “We made Shaista Parveen be part of the occasion, not Atiq Ahmad and we additionally wished her to face for Mayor elections. Until now neither the govt. nor the police has proven any such video that exhibits Shaista Parveen has any hyperlink with that incident. The day she will get concerned, BSP won’t preserve such an individual within the occasion. No motion has been taken by the occasion in opposition to her, she continues to be within the occasion.”
Shaista, 51, is on the most-wanted record of the UP Police after her husband Atiq was shot lifeless in police custody. A reward of ₹50,000 has been introduced for any details about her.
In a niche of solely two days, Shaista had misplaced her son Asad and husband Atiq. Two days after Asad was killed in a police encounter carried out by a particular job power of the Uttar Pradesh police, Atiq and his brother Ashraf have been shot lifeless in Prayagraj.
There have been speculations that Shaista Parveen would give up at Atiq’s final rites, however she continues to be absconding.
Efforts to arrest Shaista have been intensified final week by the UP Police as they searched all potential hideouts that have been recognized to the police the place she may’ve been, together with her household’s homes in varied localities and villages in Prayagraj in addition to neighbouring Kaushambi districts.
The UP Police believes that together with her son and husband lifeless, Shaista can be the one who may have extra info to make clear the planning and execution of the homicide of lawyer Umesh Pal and his two police guards who have been killed on February 24.
Shaista, together with Atiq and Asad, was one of many named accused within the Umesh Pal homicide case and she or he has been on the run since February 24.