Atiq Ahmed Crimes: What was Atiq Ahmed’s criminal record?

Atiq Ahmed was an Indian gang leader who fought his way through to political ranks. He was charged with several criminal activities before his death.

He first made it on the police radar after he was charged with murder in 1979. He became a strong influence in the western part of Allahabad city in 1989.

That same year, he won his first election as an independent candidate and became a state lawmaker. He also won the seat for two terms continuously and became a lawmaker from the Samajwadi Party (SP).

Ahmed was a well-known hardened criminal and gang leader who rose up the ranks to become a politician. He was known for several criminal charges including kidnapping, murder, and extortion.

He was arrested in 2019 and was ordered to be moved in a jail located in Gujarat State after it was reported that he had planned several attacks on a businessman while he was in prison awaiting other criminal charges.

Cases against him also included the murder of Umesh Pal, a pivotal witness in the 2005 murder of Raju Pal, a lawmaker who was a member of the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP).

Raju Pal was murdered after he defeated Ashraf in the 2004 assembly elections in Ahmed’s political stronghold. Umesh Pal was also killed in February 2004 after several people opened fire on him.