AHMEDABAD: A staff of the Uttar Pradesh police reached Sabarmati central jail in Gujarat’s Ahmedabad on Sunday to take gangster-turned-politician Atiq Ahmed to Prayagraj, the place he will probably be produced earlier than a courtroom that’s scheduled to cross an order on March 28 in a kidnapping case during which he’s an accused, officers mentioned.
Ahmed, a former Samajwadi Party chief, has been lodged in Sabarmati jail since June 2019 the place he was shifted from his house state as per the Supreme Court orders in April that yr, they mentioned. “A staff of police from Prayagraj is on the Sabarmati jail to take Atiq Ahmed to their state, the place he will probably be produced in a courtroom.
Formalities for a similar are underway,” Superintendent of Police (Sabarmati jail) J S Chavda mentioned. A courtroom in Prayagraj has set March 28 because the date to cross its order in a kidnapping case during which Ahmed is an accused, Prayagraj Police Commissioner Ramit Sharma mentioned within the Uttar Pradesh metropolis. Sharma mentioned {that a} staff of the Prayagraj police was despatched to deliver Ahmed and produce him to the courtroom there on the given date.
“As part of the procedure, all the accused are to be produced before the court on the date of the judgment and then sent back to their respective jails. A team of police has been sent to Sabarmati jail for mafia Atiq Ahmed as he has to be produced in the court on the given date,” the police officer mentioned.
Atiq has been lodged in Sabarmati jail since June 2019 after the Supreme Court had in April that yr directed that the previous MP from Phulpur in UP be shifted to a high-security jail in Gujarat after he was accused of orchestrating the kidnapping and assault of an actual property businessman Mohit Jaiswal whereas in jail. He is called in additional than 100 felony instances, together with the latest Umesh Pal homicide case, police mentioned.
Among probably the most sensational murders during which Ahmed is allegedly concerned was that of Raju Pal, the MLA from the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) who was shot useless in 2005. Umesh Pal, a key witness on this homicide case, was gunned down exterior his residence in Prayagraj on February 24 this yr.
Ahmed had early this month moved the Supreme Court for defense, claiming that he and his household have been falsely implicated as accused within the Umesh Pal homicide case in Prayagraj and he could also be killed in a faux encounter by the Uttar Pradesh Police.
In his plea, Ahmed mentioned the Uttar Pradesh police had been in all chance looking for 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”.
