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Prayagraj (Uttar Pradesh), March 28 (). Prayagraj’s MP/MLA court has convicted gangster-turned-politician Atiq Ahmed, his brother Khalid Azim alias Ashraf and others for abducting key witness Umesh Pal in the 2006 BSP MLA Raju Pal murder case. The court has not yet announced the sentence.
Significantly, after the murder of BSP MLA Raju Pal on January 25, 2005, the then district panchayat member Umesh Pal had told the police that he was an eyewitness to the murder.
Umesh Pal alleged that he was abducted at gunpoint on February 28, 2006, when he refused to retract the case under pressure from Atiq Ahmed.
An FIR was registered in the case on July 5, 2007, against Ateeq Ahmed, his brother and four others.
Umesh Pal was shot dead on February 24, 2023 outside his Prayagraj residence. Atiq Ahmed and his brother Ashraf have also been accused of being involved in the conspiracy to kill Umesh Pal.
Atiq Ahmed, his brother Ashraf and another accused were present in the court when the verdict was pronounced.
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