By India Today News Desk: The Uttar Pradesh Police team which killed Atiq Ahmed’s son Asad and his aide Ghulam in an encounter tried to capture the two wanted criminals alive, revealed the FIR in the case. India Today got exclusive access to the FIR, which showed that the two men had opened fire on the police team first and they were killed in “retaliatory firing”.

The two were accused in the Umesh Pal murder case and had a bounty of Rs 5 lakh over their heads. They had been absconding from the police ever since Umesh Pal was killed in February outside his home in Pryagraj.