AHMEDABAD: Gangster-politician Atiq Ahmad can be produced earlier than an Uttar Pradesh court docket at the moment in reference to the Umesh Pal homicide case. A group of Uttar Pradesh Police is bringing Ahmad to Prayagraj from the Sabarmati Central Jail. Earlier, Ahmad was taken from Ahmedabad to Prayagraj by the Uttar Pradesh Police on March 26 to supply him in court docket. On March 28, the court docket sentenced Ahmad and two others to life imprisonment within the 2006 Umesh Pal kidnapping case.
Ahmad and his aides had kidnapped Umesh Pal in 2006 and compelled him to provide a press release in court docket of their favour. After the sentence was handed, the 60-year-old former Uttar Pradesh MLA and Lok Sabha member was transported again to the high-security jail in Gujarat on March 29.
The Supreme Court had ordered Ahmad to be transferred to a high-security jail in Gujarat in April 2019 after he was accused of orchestrating the kidnapping of actual property businessman Mohit Jaiswal whereas in jail. Ahmad has been named in over 100 legal circumstances, together with the current Umesh Pal homicide case, based on the police.
Raju Pal, an MLA from the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP), was shot useless in 2005 in one of many murders Ahmad is allegedly concerned in. Umesh Pal, a key witness on this homicide case, was killed exterior his residence in Prayagraj on February 24 this 12 months.
Ahmad moved the Supreme Court final month for defense, claiming that he and his household have been falsely accused within the Umesh Pal homicide case in Prayagraj, and that he is perhaps killed in a pretend encounter by the Uttar Pradesh Police. In his plea, Ahmad had mentioned that the Uttar Pradesh Police have been probably searching for his transit remand and police remand to take him from Ahmedabad to Prayagraj and that he “genuinely apprehends that he could also be eradicated throughout this transit interval. (With IANS inputs)
