Cops to bring Atiq Ahmad from Gujarat jail to UP

LUCKNOW: The police have started the paperwork to bring don-turned-politician Atiq Ahmad, who is lodged in Sabarmati jail in Gujarat, to UP.
Senior officials who did not wish to be quoted said that on the basis of the information and evidence gathered so far, Atiq has been identified as the master conspirator of the murder of Umesh Pal and two police guards. "We have begun the paperwork and will soon apply for a warrant B (production warrant) to the jail in Gujarat where Atiq is lodged. We are working on expediting the cases against him in the state," said an officer.
Atiq was shifted to Sabarmati jail in June 2019. The Supreme Court had on April 22, 2019 ordered to shift him to a high-security jail in Gujarat after he was accused of orchestrating the kidnapping and assault on a real estate businessman, Mohit Jaiswal, while in jail.
On December 28, 2018, Jaiswal had filed an FIR stating that he was kidnapped from Lucknow and taken to a jail where he was assaulted by Atiq and his aides and forced to transfer his business to them.
The incident had taken place at Deoria jail in UP. Later, the case was handed over to CBI which had filed a chargesheet on December 31, 2020 in the case and indicted Atiq and his son Umar along with others.