The Uttar Pradesh police Monday questioned two relatives of ruling Bahujan Samaj Party legislator Shekhar Tiwari, who is accused of murdering a government engineer, about the crime.

K.K. Shukla and S.K. Shukla, who are brothers-in-law of the legislator, were picked up from their home at Rakesh Marg and taken to the Sihani Gate police stations for questioning in the case of the murder of public works department (PWD) engineer M.K. Gupta in Auraiya district of the state.