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00:00No, it wasn't a Bollywood film, but real life. What unfolded on Indian television live on
00:10Saturday night was unprecedented. Gangster-turned-politician Ateeq Ahmed and his brother Ashraf, who were
00:16being taken for a routine medical check-up while in judicial custody, were shot dead
00:21at point-blank range, right in front of millions of people and right under the nose of the
00:26UP police. The incident has raised disturbing questions on the role of the police, what
00:31exactly they were doing, and law and order and due process in Uttar Pradesh. Just days
00:36earlier, Ateeq Ahmed's son Asad was killed in a police encounter, which happened to be
00:40the 183rd encounter under the Yogi Adityanath government in the last six years. And these
00:46are some of the issues that we're exploring in this week's column.