I'm reduced to dust, spare my family, pleads gangster-politician Atiq Ahmad

I am totally reduced to dust but please dont trouble the women and children of my family now gangsterpolitician Atiq Ahmad told reporters from inside a police van on Wednesday Chief Minister Yogi Adityanaths mafiaaon ko mitti me mila denge warning probably playing on his mindThe 60yearold former Samajwadi Party MLA who faces more than 100 cases in Uttar Pradesh was taken from the Sabarmati Central Jail in Ahmedabad to a prison in Prayagraj more than 1000 kms away by road in connection with the Umesh Pal murder caseThe police convoy taking Ahmad to Prayagraj left the Sabarmati Jail on Tuesday evening and entered into the Uttar Pradesh border from Jhansi at around 845 amThe convoy reached the Naini Central Jail in Prayagraj around 6 pmWhile he was on the way he spoke to the mediapersons from inside the police van He pleaded the government to spare his family members who are coaccused in several casesHum aapke jariye government se kehna chahte hain bulkul mitti me mil gaye hain ab hamari auraoton aur bachchon ko pareshan na karein I want to tell the government through you the media that I am totally reduced to dust but please dont trouble the women and children of my family now Ahmad told a news channel from inside his police van between Jhansi and PrayagrajHe will be produced before a court in Prayagraj on Thursday in the Umesh Pal murder caseAfter Umesh Pal a key witness in the 2005 murder of former BSP MLA Raju Pal in which Ahmad is an accused was shot dead outside his residence in Prayagraj on February 24 this year Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath had said mafiaaon ko mitti me mila denge will reduce the mafia to dustAlso ReadWe will fight together Rahul Gandhi after meeting Nitish Kumar Tejashwi YadavMafiagiri toh pahle hi samapth ho gyi ab toh ragada ja raha hai Mafiagiri has already ended now I am being hounded Ahmad said when asked about his criminal actsAhmad last month moved the Supreme Court for protection claiming he and his family have been falsely implicated as accused in the Umesh Pal murder case in Prayagraj and he may be killed in a fake encounter by the Uttar Pradesh PoliceAsked about his son Asad who is also wanted in the Umesh Pal murder case Ahmad said How would I know I am in jailEarlier when his convoy was in Madhya Pradesh Ahmad claimed he was being harassed in the Sabarmati Central Jail in GujaratMy family is ruined I am safe because of you he told the member of the pressI have not telephoned anyone from there inside the jail as jammers were installed there I have not hatched any conspiracy and am behind bars for the last six years he saidAfter Umesh Pal and his two police security guards were killed his wife Jaya Pal filed a complaint against Ahmad his brother Ashraf wife Shaista Parveen two sons aides Guddu Muslim and Ghulam and nine othersThe Uttar Pradesh Police had on March 26 also taken Ahmad from the Sabarmati jail to Prayagraj to produce him in a court On March 28 the court there had sentenced Ahmad and two others to life imprisonment in the 2006 Umesh Pal kidnapping caseAhmad was brought back to the highsecurity jail in Gujarat in a UP police van on March 29 after a nearly 24hourlong road journey from PrayagrajIn 2006 Atiq Ahmad and his aides abducted Umesh Pal and forced him to give a statement in court in their favour Umesh Pal had registered a complaint in this regardThe Supreme Court had in April 2019 directed that Ahmad be shifted to a highsecurity jail in Gujarat after he was accused of orchestrating the kidnapping and assault of a real estate businessman Mohit Jaiswal while in jailThis story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever