Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav has 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.
Yadav said that the BJP 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 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.
Gangster-turned-politician Atiq Ahmad's son Asad and an accomplice, both wanted in the Umesh Pal murder case, were killed in an encounter with the Uttar Pradesh Police in Jhansi on Thursday.