Umesh Pal’s mother thanks Yogi after encounter

Prayagraj (ANI): Shanti Devi, mother of lawyer Umesh Pal who was killed in February, on Thursday thanked Uttar Pradesh CM Yogi Adityanath and expressed her full faith in the Uttar Pradesh govt, for giving “justice” after gangster-turned-politician Atiq Ahmed’s son was shot dead in a police encounter.

“I thank CM Yogi ji for serving justice and I appeal to him to give us justice ahead also. We have full faith in CM,” said Shanti Devi, mother of Umesh Pal, the advocate who was killed in Prayagraj earlier this year.

“This is a tribute to my son. I thank the Chief Minister and the police department which discharged their duties,” Shanti Devi told reporters in Prayagraj on Thursday.

Asad along with his associate Ghulam, both of whom were wanted in the Umesh Pal murder case, were shot dead in an encounter with Uttar Pradesh Special Task Force in Jhansi on Thursday.

Jaya Devi, Umesh Pal’s wife also thanked the chief minister.

“I thank the Chief Minister who took such a decision. He gave punishment to the killers of his daughter’s husband.

It is justice. I expect that the Chief Minister will do good whatever he does. I express my gratitude to the Chief Minister who is like a fatherly figure,” she said.

Both Asad and Ghulam carried rewards of Rupees five lakhs each on their heads.

The police said that foreign-made weapons were recovered from the duo.

I thank CM Yogi ji for serving justice and I appeal to him to give us justice ahead also. We have full faith in CM. This is a tribute to my son. I thank the CM and the police department which discharged their duties —Shanti Devi, mother of Umesh Pal

Drone shot down near LoC in Rajouri

KILLING OF GANGSTER’S SON ASAD, GHULAM ‘HUGE SUCCESS’: UP STF

Lucknow: The Special Task Force (STF) of UP Police on Thursday termed the encounter of Atiq Ahmed’s son Asad and another accused Ghulam, wanted in the Umesh Pal murder case, as a “huge success”. A top cop said that both the wanted persons in the Umesh Pal

YOGI LAUDS STF FOR ENCOUNTER OF ASAD & AIDE

murder case has been eliminated and they were possessing foreign-made sophisticated weapons.

I AM TO BLAME FOR MY SON’S DEATH: AHMED

ASAD CHANGED SIX CITIES IN 2 MONTHS, CHANGED 10 SIMs

 Asad Ahmed was wanted for the February 24 murder of Umesh Pal, a lawyer and witness in the 2005 murder of a BSP MLA.

 As per police, Asad had fled to Lucknow after the shooting. After the murder of Umesh Pal police swung into action. Asad kept changing locations to escape the cops.

Rajouri (ANI): Security forces tracked and shot down a drone after it crossed the Line of Control (LoC) in LoC in Rajouri’s Beri Pattan area, officials said on Thursday.

“On the intervening night of Wednesday and Thursday, a suspicious movement of aerial objects was reported on LoC in Rajouri’s Beri Pattan area after which a cordon and search operation was launched and movement of a drone was tracked,” a statement by Defence Public Relation Officer said.

Five loaded AK magazines, some cash and a sealed packet were recovered from the drone, added the PRO.

A search operation is underway.

On April 1, the Border Security Forces opened fire at a drone allegedly belonging to Pakistan, forcing it to return to the neighbouring country.

“A drone was forced to return to Pakistan after BSF troops deployed at the India-Pakistan international in Sambha District fired towards a blinking light of a flying object observed,” BSF had said in a statement.

The drone was spotted around 12:15 am on Saturday on the international border in Ramgarh, Samba District. A search operation

4 KG HEROIN AIR-DROPPED

BY DRONE SEIZED IN PUNJAB BY BSF undertaken by BSF is underway, they added.

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YADAV TERMS KILLING OF GANGSTER’S SON A FAKE ENCOUNTER TO DIVERT ATTENTION SPARE MY FAMILY, GANGSTER AHMED HAD PLEADED

Lucknow: Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav on Thursday accused the BJP government in Uttar Pradesh of carrying out a “fake encounter” to kill the son of gangster-turned-politician Atiq Ahmad and his associate in Jhansi. He alleged that the ruling party was trying to divert the attention of the people from the real issues plaguing the state. Yadav said the BJP government did not believe in the courts and was taking the law into its own hands. He said it was not right

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for those in power to pass judgement on who was right or wrong and to decide who should live or die.

“With fake encounters, the BJP government is trying to divert attention from the real issues. The BJP does not believe in courts at all. Today’s and recent encounters should also be thoroughly investigated and the culprits should not be spared. Those in power do not have the right to decide what is right or wrong. BJP is against harmony,” Yadav tweeted in Hindi.

Prayagraj: “I am totally reduced to dust, but please don’t trouble women and children of my family now,” Atiq Ahmad told media from a police van on Wednesday, CM’s “mafiaaon ko mitti me mila denge” warning probably playing on his mind. The former Samajwadi Party MLA, who faces more than 100 cases in UP, was taken from the Sabarmati Central Jail in Ahmedabad to a prison in Prayagraj by road in the Umesh Pal murder case.

Lucknow: Hours after the encounter killing of gangster-turned-politician Atiq Ahmed’s son Asad and his aide Ghulam, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath praised the UP Special Task Force team at a meeting on law and order on Thursday, news agency ANI reported. Yogi lauded the efforts of the DGP, Special DG (law and order) and the entire team. A report on the encounter was submitted before the CM, the chief minister’s office said. Atiq Ahmed’s son Asad and his aide Ghulam were killed in an encounter by the UP Police on Thursday in Jhansi.

India’s exports up by 14% to USD 770 bn in 2022-23: Goyal

Rome (ANI): Union Commerce Minister Piyush Goyal said that India’s overall exports scaled new heights to USD 770 billion in 202223, registering 14 per cent growth compared to the previous year’s figures.

He said, “It is an alltime high record, growing from USD 500 billion in 2020-21 to USD 676 billion in 2021-22”.

Goyal was addressing the India-Italy Business summit in Washington on Thursday.

“And now the country registers a further growth of nearly USD 100 billion to cross USD 770 billion in such challenging times, when the world is seeing softening of international trade, slowing of international trade, and when there are recessionary conditions in the developed world…” he said.

The minister said there were concerns about the export performance in the year gone by. “There were concerns because of the conflict in Ukraine,” Goyal said, adding, “They were concerns that piled up inventories in the developed world may not help us achieve such a stupendous performance.”

He praised PM Narendra Modi, who in August 2020, had given a clarion call to Indian business persons, to the country’s missions across the world.

The Minister said the One District One Product initiative of Prime Minister Narendra Modi helped the government to identify specific jewels in each district in India and the district, while being developed as an export hub, truly transformed the landscape of India’s export performance. “It is indeed a matter of satisfaction that we have grown both in goods and services. Our goods export, which was USD 294 billion in the year 2020-21 grew to USD 422 billion in the year 2021-22,” the commerce minister said, adding “And has further grown to USD 447 billion in the year just gone by. Our services exports, which were USD 206 billion in the year 2021, grew to USD 254 billion in the year 2021-22,” Goyal added. He said services exports have achieved new heights by crossing USD 323 billion and added that this was truly a sign of India’s expanding its international footprints.

Prayagraj: Atiq Ahmed, while being taken to Naini Jail, said he was responsible for his son’s death and also requested that he be allowed to participate in his last rites. Asad’s encounter came the same day his father, gangster-politician Atiq Ahmed was produced before the Chief Judicial Magistrate (CJM) Court in Prayagraj in the Umesh Pal murder case, along with his brother Ashraf.

 From Lucknow, Asad fled to Kanpur. Then he went to Meerut. He then went to Delhi, then to Ajmer. From there, he decided to flee to Madhya Pradesh. Asad changed 10 SIM cards to avoid being tracked, police said.

 UP police sources said they had an informer in Atiq’s gang. As Asad moved to Jhansi, police started raiding locations to catch him.

 Asad and his co-accused in the murder case, Ghulam, set out on a bike for MP on Thursday. He was in disguise to avoid being caught.

 A UP STF team, which was tracking Asad, intercepted the two on their way to MP. Police said, Ghulam opened fire on the police team. In retaliatory firing by the cops, Asad and Ghulam were shot dead.

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