CJM grants more time to police to filereport in Atiq sister’s surrender plea

Prayagraj: The chief judicial magistrate (CJM), Prayagraj on Monday granted further time to the Dhoomanganj police to submit report in response to an application moved by slain gangster-turned-politician Atiq Ahmed’s sister Ayesha Noori expressing her desire to surrender before the court. The court fixed April 26 as the next date for hearing of the matter.
According to district government counsel (criminal) Gulab Chandra Agrahri, when the application was taken up on Monday, it was brought to the notice of the CJM that the police has not filed its report till now in the matter. In this backdrop, the CJM, Dinesh Kumar Gautam agreed to grant further time for the same. Earlier, on April 11, the CJM had sought a report from the police department in this matter.
In her application, Ayesha Noori has stated that she has come to know through the media report that she has been made an accused in the Umesh Pal murder case. “Hence, if I have been made an accused in this case, I wish to surrender before the court in order and to get myself bailed out,” she requested.
In this backdrop, she requested the CJM to obtain a report from the police in this connection so that she may surrender before the court in connection with the aforesaid case and may get herself bailed out.
Earlier, Ayesha’s husband Akhlaq Ahmed, a Meerut-based doctor, was arrested by the special task force (STF) on April 2 from his Meerut residence and taken to Prayagraj. He was later sent to jail in 14 days’ judicial custody in connection with the Umesh Pal murder case.
It is alleged that Akhlaq provided shelter and money to the killers of Umesh Pal, the key witness in the murder case of BSP MLA Raju Pal. It is further alleged that Akhlaq, who was posted at Abdullapur Community Health Centre, not only provided shelter to the killers of Umesh Pal, but also money when they reached Meerut after the murder. Subsequently, after the arrest of Akhlaq, his wife Ayesha Noori too was wanted in this connection. Ayesha Noori came to limelight when she followed the cavalcade of police carrying Atiq from Sabarmati jail of Gujarat to Prayagraj for producing him before the court at the time of pronouncement of verdict in connection with Umesh Pal abduction case on March 28.
Umesh Pal and his two police security guards — Sandeep Nishad and Raghvendra Singh — were shot dead on February 24, 2023, outside his home in the Dhoomanganj police station area of Prayagraj.
On a complaint lodged by Umesh Pal’s wife Jaya Pal, a criminal case was registered at Dhoomanganj police station against Atiq, his brother Ashraf, two sons, aides – Guddu Muslim and Ghulam and nine others.