Atiq Ahmad shifted to Naini jail

BAREILLY: The state executive has shifted gangster-turned-politician Atiq Ahmad to Naini (Prayagraj) central jail on well being grounds. The executive had taken prior permission from the Election Commission for the switch after Ahmad’s spouse asked the state executive to shift him to Naini prison.
District jail superintendent, UP Mishra, said that after receiving orders from EC and the state executive, they sent Ahmad to Naini prison in top security on Friday evening.

Ahmad’s attorney, Nisar Ahmad, informed TOI, “We have asked the federal government to shift my shopper to Naini prison since he's diabetic and it had been very tough to take him to Allahabad top courtroom and Lucknow courtroom on hearings from Bareilly prison. We are thankful to the federal government in addition to EC for paying heed to hour request.”

Advocate Ahmad said that Atiq Ahmad’s transferring to Naini jail would assist in making ready technique for contesting election on Phulpur or Fatehpur Lok Sabha seat.

Atiq might contest election himself or he would box his spouse, as his advocate has hinted while divulging his ballot technique. the mafia-turned-MP has ‘dominance’ on couple of Lok Sabha constituencies of Eastern UP. According to political pundits, if he contests election, he's going to unquestionably make dent in SP-BSP alliance and Congress votes.

Meanwhile, on April 11, an advocate Ashwini Upadhyay had filed PIL in Supreme Court pleading existence ban on politicians convicted in legal cases. SC bench headed via Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi will imagine the PIL on April 23.


Atiq was once shifted to Bareilly from Deoria on January 1 after abduction of Lucknow-based businessman Mohit Jaiswal into Deoria prison via his goons where he allegedly manhandled him at the side of his son Umar.


The UP executive has stated in its record filed in SC that CCTVs of the jail advanced were not working at the relevant time and the jail manual was once now not adopted at the time when Jaiswal was once abducted into Deoria jail.


In that matter, an inquiry was once initiated against four officers including jail superintendent. Three security guards were suspended. However, any arrest is yet to be made.


As many as 109 legal cases were registered against Atiq Ahmad from 1979 to 2019. Of 109 cases, 17 are of murder cases.
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