In a major development in the Umesh Pal murder case, the Special Task Force (STF) has arrested gangster Atiq Ahemd's brother-in-law Akhlaq from Meerut, informed police sources.
Delhi Assembly Speaker on Thursday nominated Aam Aadmi Party MLA Naresh Yadav for representation in the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) in place of Atishi, who was elevated as a cabinet minister this month.
Delhi Power Minister Atishi on Thursday alleged that her department was being "pressurised" by BJP leaders and Lieutenant Governor VK Saxena in a bid to stop Aam Aadmi Party government's power subsidies to farmers and advocates.
Gangster-turned-politician Atiq Ahmed, who has been sentenced to life, was brought to the Sabarmati Central Jail on Wednesday from the Naini Central Jail in Prayagraj.
Gangster-turned-politician Atiq Ahmad, who was sentenced to life imprisonment in the Umesh Pal kidnapping case, is being taken back to Sabarmati Jail in Ahmedabad on Wednesday.
Uttar Pradesh's mafia-turned-politician Atiq Ahmed's brother Ashraf Ahmed a convict in the Umesh Pal murder case on Tuesday claimed that an officer revealed that he will be killed in two weeks.
Atiq Ahmed, who was never punished in any case in the last 43 years, despite a hundred cases being registered against him, was finally given life imprisonment on Tuesday, in what could serve as an example for the whole country.
A Prayagraj MP-MLA court, which today held the five-time MLA guilty and two others in the abduction case, however, acquitted seven others including the mafia turned politician's brother Ashraf.
The Court pronounced life sentences to Atiq Ahmed, Dinesh Pasi and Khan Saulat Hanif in the case and has also imposed a fine of Rs 5,000 on each of the three. All the other seven accused in the case, including Ashraf, the brother of Atiq Ahmed have been acquitted.