Uttar Pradesh Police Bringing Gangster-Turned-Neta Atique Ahmed From Ahmedabad To Prayagraj By Road

A team of the Uttar Pradesh police is bringing gangster-turned-politician Atique Ahmed to Prayagraj from the Sabarmati central jail in Gujarat.

A convoy of 45 policemen and 6 cars, along with Ahmed, has departed from the Sabarmati jail.

Once in Prayagraj, Ahmed will be produced before a court that is scheduled to pass an order on March 28 in a kidnapping case in which he is an accused, officials said.

Ahmed, a former Samajwadi Party leader, has been lodged in Sabarmati jail since June 2019 where he was shifted from his home state as per the Supreme Court orders in April that year, they said.

A court in Prayagraj has set March 28 as the date to pass its order in a kidnapping case in which Ahmed is an accused, Prayagraj Police Commissioner Ramit Sharma said.

Among the most murders in which Ahmed is allegedly involved was that of Raju Pal, the MLA from the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) who was shot dead in 2005. Umesh Pal, a key witness in this murder case, was gunned down outside his residence in Prayagraj on February 24 this year.

Ahmed had early this month moved the Supreme Court for protection, claiming that he and his family have been falsely implicated as accused in the Umesh Pal murder case in Prayagraj and he may be killed in a fake encounter by the Uttar Pradesh Police.

In his plea, Ahmed said the Uttar Pradesh police were in all likelihood seeking his transit remand and police remand to take him from Ahmedabad to Prayagraj and he 'genuinely apprehends that he may be eliminated during this transit period'.

With inputs from PTI.