SP leader Haji Riyaz, IAS officer Deepak Trivedi succumb to Covid

LUCKNOW/PILIBHIT : Former minister Haji Riyaz Ahmad and senior IAS officer Deepak Trivedi died due to Covid-19 on Thursday, official sources said. Samajwadi Party (SP) leader Ahmad (69) died at a hospital in Bareilly during treatment on Thursday morning, his son-in-law Arif said. He will be laid to rest in his ancestral village Gauhar, he said. Senior bureaucrat and Revenue Board Chairman Deepak Trivedi (59) also succumbed to the virus during treatment at Sanjay Gandhi Post Graduate Institute of Medical Sciences (SGPGI) on Thursday morning.