Atiq Ahmed's Brother, Ashraf Ahmed
Atiq Ahmed’s brother, Ashraf Ahmed who was recently tried in Prayagraj Special Court in the Umesh Pal kidnapping case. He was acquitted by the court. Ashraf was going to be shifted to the Bareilly jail while Atiq was shifted to Gujarat’s Sabarmati Jail.
While Ashraf was being taken to the Bareilly Jail , an officer threatened to kill him in the next two weeks expressed Ashraf. “I have been threatened by an officer that I’ll be taken out of jail in two weeks and will be killed,” said Ashraf.
“Yogi understands my pain”, said Atiq Ahmed’s brother
Ashraf Ahmed has said that UP Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath understands his pain as fake cases were also filed against him. “Allegations leveled against me are fake. CM understands my pain as fake cases were also filed against him,” he added.
Ashraf said that the name of the high official, who had threatened him, would be revealed through a letter. The letter will be sent to the CM of Uttar Pradesh, Yogi. Also, he stated that this would only happen if he was killed.
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Umesh Pal’s Case Conviction
Atiq Ahmed and two other people were found guilty of the kidnapping of Umesh Pal on Tuesday by an MP-MLA court in Prayagraj, and they were given life sentences of solitary confinement. Despite the fact that Atiq, a former Samajwadi Party (SP) MP, had more than 100 complaints filed against him over the years, this is his first conviction.
Counsel for the government Gulab Chandra Agrahari stated that section 364A (kidnapping or abduction with an order to murder) of the Indian Penal Code was cited to convict Ahmad, Saulat Hanif, a lawyer, and Dinesh Pasi.
In the murder investigation, the two brothers have also been named as suspects. The murder of former Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) MLA Raju Pal on January 25, 2005, is what sparked the kidnapping case against Atiq, Ashraf, and nine other people. Umesh Pal, a member of the Zila Panchayat at the time, had admitted to police that he had seen Raju Pal being killed. Umesh Pal later claimed that he was kidnapped on February 28, 2006, at gunpoint because he defied Atiq’s request to recant.
