Gangster Atiq Ahmed and others have been sentenced to lifestyles imprisonment after a courtroom docket in Prayagraj determined them responsible withinside the 2006 Umesh Pal kidnapping case. Seven others, such as Atiq Ahmed`s brother Khalid Azim alias Ashraf, had been acquitted withinside the case.
Ahmed, a former MP and MLA who faces at the least a hundred crook instances such as homicide and kidnapping, changed into delivered from a Gujarat jail to Prayagraj following a 24-hour street adventure through the Uttar Pradesh police on Monday.
Visuals from outdoor the courtroom docket these days confirmed a protracted police cavalcade bringing the gangster-turned-baby-kisser in massive vehicles as crowds accrued on each facets of the street Ahmed’s conviction comes a month after the sensational homicide of Umesh Pal, a key witness withinside the 2005 homicide case of Bahujan Samaj Party MLA Raju Pal.
Umesh Pal changed into shot useless whilst he changed into getting out of the backseat of a Hyundai Creta SUV in Prayagraj on February 24 this year. Two police bodyguards accompanying him have been additionally killed withinside the shootout.
CCTV photos confirmed Umesh Pal and one in all his police bodyguards getting out of the SUV while unexpectedly a couple of shooters got here from in the back of and fired at him. Another guy might be visible the use of crude bombs at some stage in the assault, which exploded in a cloud of smoke, main to panic and chaos on the street with humans jogging to safety. Many deserted their motors and ran in the direction of shops.
The UP police have claimed that Atiq Ahmed were given Umesh Pal killed because the latter had named him as the important thing accused withinside the 2005 homicide. In 2006, Umesh Pal had alleged that he changed into abducted at gunpoint while he refused to retract his announcement to the police.
The courtroom docket verdict in Prayagraj these days has come withinside the 2006 kidnapping case. Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath had lashed out at competition chief Akhilesh Yadav withinside the country meeting an afternoon after the February shootout in Prayagraj, even referencing his feud together along with his father, following hard questions over the general public killing of Umesh Pal.
“Is it now no longer actual that Atiq Ahmed who has been accused through the victim’s family, is a part of the mafia fostered through the Samajwadi Party and we’ve simplest labored toward breaking its back?” Yogi Adityanath, pointing a finger at Mr Yadav, said.
“Speaker sir, he’s the godfather of all expert criminals and mafia. They have crime of their veins… And I am telling this residence these days, we can run this mafia to the ground,” the Chief Minister, once more wagging his finger at Mr Yadav, had said
