NEW DELHI/PRAYAGRAJ: Gangster-turned-politician Atiq Ahmed on Wednesday sought safety from the Supreme courtroom saying he feared being killed in a pretend encounter by the Uttar Pradesh Police, days after a key witness within the 2005 Raju Pal homicide and his two safety guards had been gunned down. His plea comes on a day a BJP MP not directly warned of such a risk. Also on Wednesday, the home of an Atiq Ahmed aide ‘the place the politician additionally stayed earlier’ was bulldozed by municipal authorities in Prayagraj, citing a civic regulation violation.
The former Samajwadi Party MP, who’s lodged at a Gujarat jail, stated the UP Police in all chance will search his remand to take him to Prayagraj.
He “genuinely apprehends that he may be eliminated during this transit period”, the plea filed within the Supreme Court stated, searching for instructions to the Centre and the state authorities to make sure his safety.
On Twitter, Subrat Pathak, the BJP MP from Kannauj, recalled the 2020 demise of gangster Vikas Dubey in an alleged trade of fireplace with policemen who had been accompanying him. The automobile carrying them had overturned, in line with the police model.
Pathak referred to as the killing of Umesh Pal and the police personnel ‘a direct assault’ on Uttar Pradesh authorities.
“Remember, when Vikas Dubey didn’t survive, it is not necessary to tell what would happen to these evil people,” he tweeted in Hindi. “And I would not be surprised at all if Atiq’s car too overturns now.”
Last Friday, Umesh Pal, the prime witness within the 2005 homicide of Bahujan Samaj Party MLA Raju Pal, was shot useless in UP’s Prayagraj. Two policemen assigned to guard him additionally succumbed to their accidents, the second solely on Wednesday.
When the Umesh Pal killing figured within the state meeting on Saturday, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath stated gangsters will likely be floor into the mud. “Mitti mein mela denge,” he had stated in Hindi.
On Monday, Arbaaz, an accused within the Umesh Pal homicide was killed in a police encounter in Prayagraj. Atiq Ahmed, accused within the 2005 case, can also be booked within the Umesh Pal homicide case.
In his plea, Atiq Khan, 61, referred to Adityanath’s assertion within the meeting and claimed there’s a “genuine and perceptible threat” to him and his members of the family.
He claimed they’ve all been falsely roped in by the UP Police within the Umesh Pal case. It appeared {that a} conspiracy has been hatched to wipe them out politically as nicely bodily, the petition stated.
It alleged that Ahmed’s two minor sons have already been taken into “illegal custody” by police and saved at an undisclosed location.
“It is even unknown to the petitioner whether they are dead or alive. The other two sons of the petitioner are also in jail in other false cases,” it stated, including that the petitioner fears that they could be killed in a pretend encounter.
Ahmed sought instructions to the Centre, state of Uttar Pradesh and others to guard his life towards the “open, direct and immediate threat” to his life from excessive state functionaries of Uttar Pradesh.
The petition stated the opposition added gas to the hearth within the state meeting, upsetting the CM to make his ‘mafia ko mitti mein mila doonga’ comment, when Atiq Ahmed was ‘important topic’ of the dialogue.
“Petitioner genuinely apprehends and believes that the petitioner may be killed in a fake encounter on one pretext or the other by UP police particularly in view of the statement made by the chief minister of state of UP on the floor of the house,” the plea alleged.
He has sought instructions restraining the state of Uttar Pradesh and others from taking him from Ahmedabad to Prayagraj or any a part of Uttar Pradesh. His interrogation, if any, needs to be carried out on the Central Jail the place he’s lodged or at another appropriate place in Ahmedabad itself underneath the safety of Gujarat Police in addition to central or paramilitary forces, the plea stated.
If the transit to Prayagraj is in any respect obligatory, it needs to be underneath the safety of any central or paramilitary drive, he has requested.
Ahmed additionally sought a path permitting his advocate to stay current throughout his interrogation and to quash warrants, if issued by any courtroom, for taking him to Prayagraj from the Ahmedabad jail.
Ahmed pleaded that he and his members of the family haven’t any connection to the Umesh Pal homicide and had been named within the FIR as a result of political and different causes.
The important motive appears to be that his spouse has joined the BSP and the get together declared her as a candidate for the publish of mayor within the coming election, the petition claimed.
“It was very well known to the rivals of the petitioner that if anything were to happen to Umesh Pal, then the petitioner would certainly be the prime suspect in view of the pending case against him by Umesh Pal and he will be made an accused. The same has been done,” it stated.
