UP Anti-Terrorist Squad (ATS) officials have been questioning gangster-politician Atiq Ahmed and his brother Ashraf over their links with Pakistan’s ISI. The grilling has been on for the last two hours in Dhoomanganj police station.

This after Atiq Ahmed said in a statement to Uttar Pradesh Police that he has direct connections with “Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) and terror outfit Lashkar-e-Taiba”.

On Thursday, a Prayagraj court sent Atiq Ahmed and his brother Ashraf to four-day police custody in the Umesh Pal murder case.