In 2016, relations between two closely related families that lived as neighbours at Sahaspur in Uttar Pradesh’s Bijnor district broke down after two members of one family were killed in an ambush and a member of the other family was made an accused in the case.
The two people killed were Tanzeel Ahmed, an officer with the National Investigation Agency (NIA), and his wife, Farzana. They were shot dead while returning home from a wedding. Their neighbour, Raiyyan, was among five accused in the case, and in 2022, he was convicted by the trial court and sentenced to death.
Ten years after the incident, the Allahabad High Court this month acquitted Raiyyan, overturning the Bijnor trial court’s order.
