Khalid Azim alias Ashraf, brother of gangster-turned-politician Atiq Ahmed, being produced at a courtroom amid heavy safety, in Prayagraj on Tuesday, March 28, 2023.
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An MP-MLA courtroom in Uttar Pradesh’s Prayagraj on March 28 held gangster-politician Atiq Ahmed and two others guilty in the 2006 Umesh Pal kidnapping case.
Special MP-MLA courtroom decide Dinesh Chandr Shukla held Ahmed, Saulat Hanif, a lawyer, and Dinesh Pasi guilty in the case, authorities counsel Gulab Chandra Agrahari mentioned.
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Seven others together with Ahmed’s brother Khalid Azim alias Ashraf have been acquitted in the case, he mentioned.
The quantum of punishment might be pronounced by the courtroom later in the day.
After the killing of the then BSP MLA Raju Pal on January 25, 2005, Umesh Pal, then a zila panchayat member, had informed police he was a witness to the homicide.
Gangster-turned-politician Atiq Ahmed being produced at a courtroom amid heavy safety, in Prayagraj on Tuesday, March 28, 2023.
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Umesh Pal had alleged that when he refused to retract and buckle below stress from Ahmed, he was kidnapped at gunpoint on February 28, 2006.
The FIR was registered on July 5, 2007, in opposition to Ahmed, his brother and others.
The police had submitted a chargesheet in the matter in opposition to 11 individuals. One of them later died.
Ahmed and Ashraf are additionally accused of being concerned in a conspiracy, whereas they had been each in jail, to kill Umesh Pal.
Umesh Pal was gunned down outdoors his Prayagraj residence on February 24.
