Former Lawmaker And Brother Shot Dead On Live TV By Posing "Journalists" As India Grapples With Extrajudicial Violence

Three men posing as journalists targeted and fatally shot former Indian lawmaker Atiq Ahmad and his brother while under police escort for a medical checkup.
The assassins quickly surrendered to police, chanting a Hindu nationalist slogan associated with Prime Minister Narendra Modi's party.
Ahmad was jailed in 2019 after being convicted of kidnapping and faced additional charges of murder and assault.
The brazen, televised attack has been criticized as a security lapse that highlights the rise of extrajudicial violence in India under the governing Bharatiya Janata Party.
The killings come amid concerns that politicians are stoking religious tensions and cultivating a culture of violence to gain political power in the world's largest democracy.