A crude bomb was hurled in a bylane near the residence of one of the lawyers of slain gangster-turned-politician Atiq Ahmad on Tuesday, police said. There was no immediate report of any casualty in the explosion that occurred at around 2.30 pm in Katra locality, they said.

SHO of Kernalganj police station Ram Mohan Rai claimed Atiq’s lawyer Dayashankar Mishra was not the target and the incident was a fallout of personal enmity between two youths.  However, the lawyer claimed that it was an attempt “to create fear and terror”.