An MP-MLA court here on Tuesday held gangster-politician Atiq Ahmad and two others guilty in the 2006 Umesh Pal kidnapping case, and sentenced them to rigorous life imprisonment. “The special MP-MLA court also imposed Rs 1 lakh fine on each,” government counsel Gulab Chandra Agrahari said. The court acquitted Ahmad’s brother Khalid Azim and six others.

Earlier, when they were produced in the court, a number of lawyers raised slogans of “fansi do”. Ahmad’s counsel Dayashankar Mishra said they will approach the high court against the conviction. Umesh Pal’s mother Shanti Devi said expressed apprehension that Ahmad “could do anything from inside the jail” and “requested the court to award him capital punishment for getting my son killed.”