Ex-Indian lawmaker brother shot dead by gunmen on live TV.

Atiq Ahmad was shot dead while speaking to journalists live on TV in the terrible footage from the state of Uttar Pradesh.

Ahmad, who had more than 100 criminal cases pending against him, was reportedly under arrest and being led by police to a court-ordered medical examination when the event took place.

Only two days prior, his son Asad Ahmad was fatally shot by Uttar Pradesh Police in what was widely regarded as an extrajudicial assassination.

When Ahmad was being questioned by journalists about why he had not gone to his son’s funeral, a shooter crept up behind him, pointed a gun directly at his head, and shot him once, instantly killing him. Ahmad’s response was that he had been forbidden from going.

The shooter fired several rounds at Atiq as he fell to the ground.

Afterwards, two more shooters opened fire, murdering his brother Ashraf, who had a history of crime identical to that of his cousin.

In the hail of gunfire, a police officer and a journalist were also said to have been hurt.

When they were being apprehended by police, the assailants were heard yelling “Surrender” and “Jai Sree Ram,” a cry honoring the god of Hinduism.

“All the three shooters have been kept in three different police stations of the city,” a police commissioner confirmed following the attack.

A judicial panel has also been appointed by the government of Uttar Pradesh to investigate the attack.

More police were deployed, and they were marching on foot around the city.

Ahmed, a former member of parliament, and his brother were in police custody when they were taken to Prayagraj, Uttar Pradesh, where Ahmed was charged with murder and assault.

Yogi Adityanath, the chief minister of Uttar Pradesh, the state where the shooting occurred, has been under fire for encouraging “encounters,” a phrase used in his state to describe extrajudicial killings. He has since established a high-level commission to look into the murder.

Adityanath and the governing BJP party have been under fire from opposition lawmakers and human rights advocates for encouraging “anarchy and lawlessness.”

“When someone can be killed by firing openly amidst the security cordon of the police, then what about the safety of the general public?” tweeted a former Chief Minister of the state, Akhilesh Yadav.

”Due to this, an atmosphere of fear is being created among the public, it seems that some people are deliberately creating such an atmosphere.’

Mail Online has learned that in an effort to restore law and order, police had set a hard curfew and were conducting flag marches nearby.

As the preliminary investigations are being completed, the three gunmen have been detained at three different police stations.