The Supreme Court on Monday said its focus is on the “systemic problem” of murder and violence in Uttar Pradesh rather than individual cases while hearing a case concerning the killings of gangster-turned-politician Atiq Ahmad and his brother Ashraf.
The oral comment made by a Bench led by Justice S. Ravindra Bhat gives an insight into the court’s intention to dig deeper into the “unholy nexus” between police and criminals in the State, as flagged by the Justice B.S. Chauhan Commission report on April 11, 2021.
In the previous hearing, the court had ordered the State to place on record the steps taken to implement police reforms recommended by the Justice Chauhan Commission, which was looking into the deaths of Uttar Pradesh-based gangster Vikas Dubey and his associates in “police retaliatory firing”.
