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The slaying of a former MP and his brother in police custody in India’s Uttar Pradesh state at the weekend has placed a spotlight on extrajudicial attacks and killings, driven in part by ethno-religious divisions fomented at the highest levels of government.
Assassins posing as journalists shot and killed at point-blank range Atiq Ahmed, 60, a mobster-turned-politician, and his brother Ashraf Ahmed, a former state politician, as they answered questions on live TV last Saturday.
In the footage,
