Mafia-turned-politician Atiq Ahmad is being taken to Sabarmati Jail in Ahmedabad from Naini jail in Prayagraj after the court docket on Tuesday gave him a life sentence in a kidnapping case.
Earlier at the moment, an MP-MLA court docket held gangster-politician Ahmed and two others responsible within the 2006 Umesh Pal kidnapping case. Special MP-MLA court docket choose Dinesh Chandra Shukla held Ahmed, Saulat Hanif, a lawyer, and Dinesh Pasi responsible within the case, authorities counsel Gulab Chandra Agrahari mentioned.
7 acquitted within the case
Seven others together with Ahmed’s brother Khalid Azim alias Ashraf have been acquitted within the case, he mentioned. The quantum of punishment might be pronounced by the court docket later within 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.
Umesh Pal had alleged that when he refused to retract and buckle underneath strain 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 within 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 exterior his Prayagraj residence on February 24.
(With inputs from company)
