Gangster Atiq Ahmed has been sentenced to life imprisonment in the 2006 kidnapping case of lawyer Umesh Pal by a court in Prayagraj. Atiq Ahmad's brother Khalid Azim and six others have been acquitted in the case.
Here are the top 5 facts on Atiq Ahmed:
- A former Samajwadi Party MP, Atiq Ahmad is accused in more than 100 criminal cases, including the recent Umesh Pal murder case, a key witness in the murder of BSP MLA Raju Pal.
- His name again hit headlines this February after Umesh Pal's was shot dead outside his Prayagraj home.
- Ahmad, 61, has said that he has no motive to kill Umesh Pal, who was complainant in a separate case against him, since the hearing was to end in next month and there was nothing left to be done by Umesh Pal in the trial of that matter.
- He has recently moved the Supreme Court for protection claiming that he and his family have been falsely "roped in" the case.
- He was moved to the Gujarat jail on the directions of the Supreme Court after he was accused of engineering the kidnapping of a real estate businessman while in jail. He has been lodged in the Sabarmati central jail since June 2019.
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