Saifullah's father now seeks probe

Lucknow: Sartaj Ahmad, father of slain terror suspect Saifullah, has now demanded a judicial inquiry into the Uttar Pradesh ATS encounter in which his son was killed in Lucknow on Wednesday morning.

The demand came after activists of Rihai Manch, a platform fighting for innocents implicated in criminal cases, met Saifullah and his family in Kanpur. Sartaj Ahmad had refused to accept his son’s body.

“I have been demanding an inquiry into the incident since the day of the encounter, but the media did not report it. I am curious to know how my son, who left home barely two-and-a-half months ago, got radicalised to such an extent that he got into this mess,” he said.