SC tags plea of Atiq's Sister with another petition seeking similar relief

New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Friday tagged a plea by the sister of gangster-politician Atiq Ahmed and Ashraf Ahmed, who were shot dead while being in police custody in Uttar Pradesh on April 15, seeking a comprehensive probe headed by a retired judge or by an independent agency into alleged "extrajudicial killings" carried out by the government with another petition seeking similar relief.

A bench of justices AS Bopanna and Prashant Kumar Mishra tagged the petition with another similar petition.

The plea was filed by Atiq Ahmed's sister Aisha Noori, who also sought an investigation into the encounter killing of her nephew and Atiq Ahmed's son. The petitioner sought to issue direction causing a comprehensive inquiry by an independent agency into the campaign of encounter killings.