Last week police shot dead Atiq Ahmed’s son in Jhansi city. He had been wanted in connection to a murder case that was being investigated as part of a wider crackdown into a land mafia operating ...

Atiq Ahmed’s son Asad Ahmed had been killed days earlier in a police encounter in Uttar Pradesh. Atiq Ahmed’s final words were a response to a reporter who asked why he wasn’t at the funeral ...

Atiq Ahmed, seen here outside a Delhi court in 2008, was one of India's most dreaded gangster-politicians Last month, Atiq Ahmed, one of India's most dreaded gangster-politicians, was shot dead ...