Why Media Running Relentlessly Behind Atiq Ahmed?

Recently, Atiq Ahmed was arrested under the case registered with the Prayagraj police department in connection with the murder case of the main witness Umesh Pal of Bahujan Samaj Party MLA Raju Pal’s murder in 2005. Ever since the case was filed against Atiq Ahmed in Prayagraj the Indian media has been running relentlessly behind the man, covering each and every second of his journey from Gujrat to Prayagraj as well as capturing him even during his loo breaks as exclusive coverage or footage. Which is getting the viewers to burst out with rage. Media has been giving utmost priority to hilariously covering the updates about Atiq Ahmed over every other important news.

Live updates have been getting published on an hourly basis by the media based on the slightest movement of Atiq Ahmed which is portraying a terrible image of the media in the eyes of the viewers. A few of them have made tweets regarding the same where all the other viewers are presenting their opinions on the hilarious coverage of Atiq Ahmed’s movements by the media.

One user wrote about the news coverage by the media about Atiq Ahmed’s pee break, “This is pure pee-standard journalism! Reminds me of Natha from Peepli Live; the only difference is it’s real. Just wondering where are we headed to with this kind of journalism?”. While another Twitter user wrote, “This makes you a pervert because you’re not only watching him do his business but also sharing it with the whole world while veiling it as mockery. Some journalist you are. LOL”

Who is Atiq Ahmed?

Atiq Ahmed was a former member of the parliament of India as well as the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly from the Samajwadi Party. He was elected as the Samajwadi Party candidate from Phulpur in Uttar Pradesh for the 14th Lok Sabha elections. Atiq Ahmed was also the president of Apna Dal between the years 1999-2003. More than 100 criminal charges are lodged against him, and he is considered one of the biggest gangsters of UP.

Atiq Ahmed is an Indian gangster-turned-politician, who has had more than 100 criminal cases lodged against him, ever since he entered the world of crime in 1979.

50 cases running on Atiq Ahmed are under trial in the other 12 of them he has got an acquittal, whereas in the other two Samajwadi Party government withdrew the cases in 2004. Recently Atiq Ahmed along with two others got served life imprisonment after the court in Prayagraj found him guilty with the two others in the case of Umesh Pal’s kidnapping in 2006. He was brought from the prison in Gujarat to Prayagraj following an approximately 24-hour journey by road on Monday by the police department of Uttar Pradesh.

Umesh Pal was shot dead by multiple shooters from behind while he was trying to get out of the backseat of a Hyundai Creta SUV on the 24th of February in Prayagraj. Two bodyguards from the police department accompanying him were also killed during the shootout. According to the police department, Atiq Ahmed got Umesh Pal killed because he named him a key accused in the 2005 murder case.

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