"We are ready to accept all the judgement. We are worried about his (Atiq Ahmed) safety. We are following him from Rajasthan," said Ayesha Noori, Atiq Ahmed's sister.
The convoy of Mafia-turned-politician Atiq Ahmed entered Madhya Pradesh's Shivpuri district on Monday morning, a day after the Uttar Pradesh Police took his custody to transit him from Gujarat's Sabarmati jail to Prayagraj jail.
Stepping out of Sabarmati jail here Ahmed told reporters waiting outside that a conspiracy was is being hatched to kill him on the pretext of following court orders.
A Prayagraj Police team which is taking Mafia-turned-politician Atiq Ahmed to Uttar Pradesh from Ahmedabad's Sabarmati Jail halted for a while in Rajasthan's Udaipur for refuelling on Sunday.
Uttar Pradesh Deputy Chief Minister Brajesh Pathak reacted to former UP Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav's statement that the vehicle that will bring Atiq Ahmed will be overturned and said, such comments don't matter.
A 45-member team of Uttar Pradesh Police will shift gangster-turned-politician Atiq Ahmed, who is currently lodged in Gujarat's Sabarmati Jail, to Prayagraj jail, an official said on Sunday.
A man claiming to be a witness in the 2005 BSP MLA Raju Pal murder case has demanded security from the Yogi Adityanath-led Uttar Pradesh government in view of the recent murder of Umesh Pal, a witness in the case.
After the accused in the Umesh Pal murder case were killed in encounters, Samajwadi Party MP Ram Gopal Yadav on Tuesday expressed apprehension that the police would kill one of the sons of gangster-turned-politician Atiq Ahmed in a fake encounter in a few days.
The Uttar Pradesh Police on Tuesday arrested two people including a prison official arrested for allegedly facilitating meets between jailed former MLA Mohammad Ashraf alias Khalid Azim, the younger brother of Bahubali mafia don Atiq Ahmed, and his aides.
Rejecting the bail application of Atiq Ahmed's son Ali Ahmed in a 2021 extortion case, the Allahabad High Court observed that enlarging "such a criminal" on bail would be a threat "not only to the witnesses but also a constant threat to society".