An MP-MLA court docket in Prayagraj right this moment held Mafia-turned-politician Atiq Ahmed responsible within the 2006 Umesh Pal kidnapping case. The Prayagraj MP-MLA Court sentenced Atiq Ahmed to life imprisonment besided imposing a high-quality of Rs 5,000 on him. According to authorities counsel Gulab Chandra Agrahari, decide Dinesh Chandr Shukla held Ahmaed, Saulat Hanif, a lawyer, and Dinesh Pasi responsible within the case. He mentioned that seven others together with Ahmed’s brother Khalid Azim alias Ashraf have been acquitted within the case. The gangster was delivered to the court docket in a police van amid tightened safety with CCTV cameras and safety gear put in within the police van. Security has been heightened at Prayagraj MP-MLA Court.
Atiq Ahmed and his brother Khalid Azim alias Ashraf had been produced earlier than the court docket in reference to the 2006 kidnapping of Umesh Pal, a witness within the BSP MLA Raju Pal homicide case, who was killed final month in an assault allegedly orchestrated by the 2.
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The brothers had been delivered to the Naini Central Jail right here on Monday, after lengthy street journeys from two separate prisons. Security has been tightened within the court docket premises in addition to the jail complicated the place the accused are lodged. Umesh Pal’s spouse Jaya Pal mentioned she will not be going to the court docket however will “pray” that Ahmed will get capital punishment.
“I am not going to the court. I will be in my house and pray for capital punishment for Ahmed. If they get life imprisonment, they will continue to do the same things that they did with my husband,” Jaya Pal instructed reporters.
Ahmed and Ashraf are additionally accused of being concerned in a conspiracy, whereas they had been each in jail, to kill Umesh Pal. After the killing of BSP MLA Raju Pal on January 25, 2005, Umesh Pal, then a zila panchayat member, had instructed police he was a witness to the homicide.
Umesh Pal alleged that when he refused to retract and buckle beneath stress from Ahmed, he was kidnapped at gunpoint on February 28, 2006. The FIR was registered on July 5, 2007, towards Ahmed, his brother, and 4 unidentified individuals.
Umesh Pal was gunned down outdoors his Prayagraj residence on February 24.
On a grievance from Umesh Pal’s spouse, a case was lodged on the Dhoomanganj police station in Prayagraj towards Ahmed, his brother, his spouse Shaista Parveen, two sons, aides Guddu Muslim and Ghulam, and 9 others.
Ahmed, a former Samajwadi Party MP from Phulpur, was shifted to the Sabarmati Central Jail in Gujarat in June 2019 following a Supreme Court order after he was accused of orchestrating the kidnapping and assault of actual property businessman Mohit Jaiswal whereas in jail in Uttar Pradesh. He is known as in additional than 100 legal circumstances, together with the Umesh Pal homicide case, police mentioned. (With company inputs)
