Mafia don Ateeq Ahmad shifted to Ahmedabad from UP

Mafia don-turned-politician Ateeq Ahmad, under the order of Supreme court, has been shifted to a jail in Ahmedabad. He was shifted from Naini jail in Allahabad via a commercial flight and was Samajwadi Party's MP in 2004. He was being charged under the murder of BSP party MLA in the year 2005.

Lucknow:Mafia don-turned-politician Ateeq Ahmad was on Monday shifted to a jail in Ahmedabad in Gujarat under tight security, upon the directives of the Supreme Court.

He was taken on a commercial flight from Allahabad, where he was recently shifted to.

Prior to that, Ahmad was lodged in Deoria district jail for assaulting a businessman inside the prison.

He was then brought to Naini jail in Allahabad after he said he would contest the Lok Sabha elections from Allahabad. However, he was denied permission for parole to campaign for himself. Ahmad later filed his nomination papers from Varanasi but withdrew it.

Ahmad was a Samajwadi Party MP in 2004 and was charged with the murder of Bahujan Samaj Party MLA Raju Pal in 2005.

In December 2016, Ahmad and his men had allegedly assaulted the staff members of the Sam Higginbottom University of Agriculture, Technology and Sciences (SHUATS) for taking action against two students who were caught cheating in an examination.

The video of Ahmad beating the SHUATS teacher and employees was widely circulated on the Internet and he was, again, arrested.

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