Outlawed gangster Atiq Ahmed and two other culprits were convicted by the court in Prayagraj after they were found guilty in 2006. All of these offenders were sentenced to life imprisonment. They are reportedly found guilty in the 2006 Umesh Pal kidnapping case. Not only this, seven other people including Atiq’s brother Khalid Azim, also known as Ashraf have been acquitted in the case. 

As known to many, Ahmed was a former MP and MLA who was charged with more than 100 criminal cases including murder and kidnapping and was then brought to Prayagraj from Gujarat prison. The trail was followed by a 24-hour journey by the Uttar Pradesh police on Monday. 

Reports from outside the court showed today that a long police cavalcade brought the gangster-turned-politician in large vans because the crowds gatherers on either side of the way. Ahmed who was convicted has seen his sentence after thirty days of the controversial murder of Umesh Pal who was a key witness in the 2005 murder case of BSP (Bahujan Samaj Party) MLA Raju Pal. 

Umesh Pal was killed on his way out of his car Hyundai Creat SUV in Prayagraj on February 24 this year. Not just this, two policemen who were with him at that time were also killed in the shootout.

CCTV footage has revealed that Umesh Pal and one of his two police bodyguards were getting off the SUV when all of a sudden several gunmen came from the rear end and started shooting at them. Another man was witnessed using crude bombs during an assault that certainly exploded into a cloud of smoke which led to panic and trouble on the road and people were seen running for their vehicles or outside of shops for safety.