PRAYAGRAJ: The Allahabad high court on Friday granted parole to slain gangster-turned-politician Atiq Ahmed‘s jailed sons Ali and Umar to enable them to attend the burial of their younger brother Abaan Ahmed, who was killed in a road accident.The body of Abaan Ahmed (21), who was killed along with his friend Sonu, 25, when their SUV crashed into a road divider in Uttar Pradesh’s Jhansi district on Thursday, was brought to Prayagraj on Friday morning.Family members said he will be buried at the Kasari-Masari graveyard on Saturday morning.A division bench of justices Ajay Bhanot and Divesh Chandra Samant passed the parole order on a petition filed by Atiq Ahmed’s sister Parveen Qureshi, seeking permission for Umar and Ali to attend their younger brother’s last rites.The high court was informed that the burial would take place on Saturday morning, following which the bench granted the two brothers parole to attend the funeral.Ali is lodged in Jhansi jail, while Umar is in Lucknow jail.In the accident, three other occupants of the vehicle, i.e., Azam, Mohammad Javed and Umar, were injured and admitted to Jhansi Medical College. Their relatives later shifted them to Prayagraj.According to police, Abaan was travelling with his friends to meet his brother Ali, who is lodged in Jhansi jail, when the accident occurred.Abaan’s grave has been prepared near that of Atiq Ahmed at the Kasari-Masari graveyard, where the graves of Atiq’s brother Ashraf and son Asad are also located.Abaan was the youngest of Atiq Ahmed’s five sons.Another of Atiq’s sons, Asad, was killed in a police encounter near Jhansi in April 2023. He was wanted in connection with the murder of Umesh Pal, a key witness in the 2005 murder of BSP MLA Raju Pal.Atiq Ahmed and his brother Ashraf were shot dead by three assailants posing as journalists on April 15, 2023, while the two were being taken by police for a medical examination at a hospital in Prayagraj.(With inputs from PTI)
