Like predators in the wild teaching their young to kill, slain gangster-politician Atiq Ahmed turned to the animal instinct to train his gang’s “nai fasal” (young crop) by using the brutal murder of BSP MLA Raju Pal in 2005, lawyer-witness Umesh Pal in February this year and many others in the past as “live drills” for rookies, according to retired IPS officer Lalji Shukla.