Businessman thrashing: SC shifts Ateeq to Gujarat jail, wants CBI probe

NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Tuesday ordered shifting of dreaded don and ex-Samajwadi Party MP Ateeq Ahmed, who had got his goons to kidnap businessman Mohit Jaiswal in December last year and thrash him inside his cell in Deoria jail, to a prison in Gujarat to prevent him from running an extortion racket in UP.
The audacious kidnapping and assault of a businessman inside a prison cell had created ripples after it was reported and the SC had taken cognisance of the TOI report and sought an account from the UP government.
Accepting the plea of amicus curiae Vijay Hansaria, who criticised the state police and prison officials for allowing the incident right under their noses, a bench of CJI Ranjan Gogoi and Justices Deepak Gupta and Sanjiv Khanna also ordered a CBI probe and asked the agency to submit periodic status reports. The court also accepted Hansaria's suggestion for immediate suspension of all jail officials alleged to have been involved in the brazen manner in which jail rules were flouted to allow goons to bring in a businessman into Ahmed's prison cell and thrash him before the don for refusing to pay extortion money.
Admitting that the incident took place inside Deoria jail, the UP government said Ahmed had since been shifted to Bareilly district jail as an inquiry found the complicity of the jail superintendent and other officials. Ahmed is facing 106 cases of which 17 are for murder, 12 under UP Gangsters Act, eight under Arms Act and four under UP Goondas Act.
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