Umesh Pal Murder: 'Not guilty of anything', says Atiq Ahmed

The Uttar Pradesh police convoy carrying gangster-turned-politician Atiq Ahmed from Ahmedabad to Prayagraj entered Jhansi on Wednesday morning. 'I'm being harassed and I'm not guilty of anything," said gangster-turned-politician Atiq Ahmed to reporters. On March 26, the UP Police brought Ahmad to Prayagraj from Sabarmati jail in Ahmedabad for a hearing in the 2006 case Umesh Pal kidnapping case. Two days later, the court sentenced him and two others to life imprisonment in the kidnapping case. While talking to reporters from the police vehicle after his convoy left Jhansi, Atiq said: "I'm not scared, if you people are there with me." On March 29, Ahmad was taken back to Sabarmati jail. In April 2019, the Supreme Court ordered authorities to shift Ahmad to a high-security jail in Gujarat after he was accused of orchestrating the kidnapping and assault of real estate businessman Mohit Jaiswal from jail in Uttar Pradesh. On asked about his son being missing, Atiq said that he is a "minor". "So what should I do? Should I go to jail?", asked Atiq after being confronted by a reporter for Umesh Pal's murder. Last month, Ahmad moved the Supreme Court for protection, claiming he and his family were being falsely implicated as accused in the Umesh Pal murder case and he could be killed in a fake encounter by the UP Police. In his plea, Ahmad said the UP Police were in all likelihood seeking his transit remand and police remand to take him from Ahmedabad to Prayagraj and he "genuinely apprehends that he may be eliminated during this transit period"