In Dhondipur and Minhajpur, the neighbourhoods near the spot where Atiq Ahmed and his brother Ashraf were gunned down on live television last week, a sense of disquiet grows over the police response to the incident in Prayagraj in Uttar Pradesh.
With the police allegedly confiscating digital video recorders from businesses in the vicinity, and making no attempt to seek police custody of the three accused until four days after the crime, the probe is under a cloud of suspicion in these two localities. The distrust is also reflected in reports featuring wild allegations that the shooters had come in a police vehicle wearing press cards.
