Amid protests and a blame game between the outgoing Congress government and the BJP, which has come to power in the state, a case was registered in connection with the murder of Sukhdev Singh Gogamedi, the national president of Rashtriya Rajput Karni Sena on Wednesday.
Umesh Pal, a key witness to the 2005 murder of the then BSP MLA Raju Pal, was killed in February 24 firing by one of Atiq's sons and henchmen in Prayagraj. Pal's two police guards were also killed on that day.
According to the FIR, a copy of which is with ANI, the complainant Sundar Lal states that the incident occurred on Monday evening when he was doing his work in his government office. During this, Patharia MLA Rambai Parihar along with her colleagues Rakesh Sahu, Praveen Jain and Sunil Jain c
Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) MLA Umashankar Singh on Sunday said his party wants Shaista Parveen, wife of slain gangster-turned-politician Atiq Ahmed, to run for the Mayoral elections in Prayagraj.
Atiq is an accused in the BSP MLA Raju Pal 2005 murder case and the recent Umesh Pal murder case. Umesh Pal, who was a prime witness in the Raju Pal murder case, was shot dead in broad daylight in Prayagraj on February 24 this year.
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.
It said that the wires of the Umesh Pal murder case are also connected in one way or the other with the former BSP MLA Raju Pal murder case in Prayagraj 18 years ago.
Jailed gangster-turned-politician and former MP Atiq Ahmed's wife, BSP leader Shaista Parveen, has filed a plea before Allahabad District Court claiming that her two sons were taken away by the police.