Prayagraj: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) conducted a raid at the residence of jailed Uttar Pradesh leader and former Samajwadi Party MP Atiq Ahmed here on Wednesday.
The CBI teams from Lucknow and Delhi started the search in the early morning around 7.30 am under tight security. They have sealed the house and no one is being allowed to go inside.
Personnel from police and Rapid Action Force (RAF) were present outside the residence of Ahmed.
Ahmed's lawyer Shaulat Hanif said, "CBI has raided Ahmed's residence, his in-laws house and his office in connection with Deoria case. They have confiscated some papers and other materials, details of which we haven't received so far."
Last month, a case was registered by CBI against the former MP and 17 others for kidnapping and assaulting real estate dealer Mohit Jaiswal in December 2018.
Jaiswal was kidnapped from Lucknow and taken to the Naini Central Jail in Prayagraj where Ahmed was lodged and allegedly assaulted by the SP leader and his aides. Jaiswal was allegedly forced to transfer his business to them.
On June 2, a Supreme Court bench, headed by Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi, had ordered Ahmed's transfer to the Ahmedabad prison from Naini jail.
Earlier, a special court had rejected Ahmed's plea seeking parole for contesting the Lok Sabha polls against PM Narendra Modi from Varanasi. In 2014, he had contested from Phulpur parliamentary constituency on a Samajwadi Party ticket.
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