Who was umesh pal

Lucknow: Amid attacks from the Opposition over the killing of arrested gangster-turned-politician Atiq Ahmed's son, Asad, in an exchange of fire in Haryana's Jhansi on Thursday, the UP's Special Task Force (STF) personnel on Friday condemned the killing of Umesh Pal, calling it an assualt on the state's criminal justice system. Asad and his aide Ghulam, who were involved in the killing of Umesh Pal, a key witness to the murder of BSP leader Raju Pal, were gunned down by the STF on Thursday. Speaking to ANI on Friday, Additional Director General, UP STF, Amitabh Yash said, "Yesterday, Asad and Ghulam were killed in an encounter. Both had killed two police personnel and Umesh Pal. Their crime was recorded on the CCTV camera. Yesterday, STF DSP Navendu Kumar lodged an FIR against them." "The post-mortem has been completed. Now their family members can take custody of their bodies and perform the last rites," he added. The ADG said, "This was a huge operation in which the STF had deployed all its teams. It was a very important case." "It (murder of Umesh Pal) was a direct attack on our criminal justice system. If key witnesses continued to be killed in this manner, no one will ever have the courage to depose in court. The entire criminal justice system will collapse," he added. Asad received two bullet injuries, confirmed doctors at Maharani Laxmi Bai Medical College, Jhansi where his body was brought for post-mortem examination. Asad's aide Ghulam, who was also shot dead in t...

The killing of Umesh Pal, a prime witness in the 2005 murder of Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) MLA Raju Pal in Prayagraj, has triggered a political uproar as opposition parties have alleged that such incidents indicate the deteriorating law and order situation in Uttar Pradesh (UP). Umesh Pal, a 43-year-old lawyer, was shot dead at his residence in Prayagraj’s Sulem Sarai area in the evening of February 24. Police said the assailants fired several rounds and attacked him with crude bombs. Pal’s two bodyguards were also injured in the attack and one of them, identified as Sandeep Nishad, succumbed to bullet injuries. However, the six heavily-armed assailants escaped unchallenged. CCTV footage of the incident has gone viral, and the UP police has formed eight teams to investigate the matter. The autopsy report suggests that Umesh Pal was shot seven times and had 13 injuries on his body. The murder of Raju Pal, MLA Raju Pal was a BSP leader. He won the by-poll for the Allahabad (West) state assembly seat in November 2004 by defeating now incarcerated leader Atique Ahmed’s younger brother Khalid Azim. Soon after winning the seat, Pal was murdered in January 2005 en route to his village for the Republic Day parade. Pal had first fought against Atique Ahmed in the 2002 assembly elections. Ahmed won the elections, but resigned in 2004 on being elected to the Lok Sabha. In the ensuing by-poll for Ahmed’s erstwhile seat, Raju Pal emerged victorious and denied Ahmed a chance to retain th...

Vijay Chaudhary alias Usman alias Naan Babu, 30, suffered bullet injuries in his neck, chest and thigh during the encounter between Gothi and Belwa under the Kaundhiyara police station area around 5.30 am, Dhoomanganj Station House Officer Rajesh Kumar Maurya said. Constable Narendra Pal suffered injuries to his hand during the encounter and has been admitted to the local community health centre, police sources said. Usman was a resident of Bamokhar village area of Kaundhiyara. He was among the multiple assailants who shot Umesh Pal and two of his security personnel in broad daylight in front of Pal’s house in the Dhumanganj police station area on February 24. While Umesh Pal succumbed the same day, the two personnel died later during treatment. Police said Usman was the one who fired the first shot at Umesh Pal. Police said that the deceased criminal Vijay Chaudhury was a practising Hindu and had been given the name 'Usman' by gangster-turned-politician Atiq Ahmed, the main accused in the 2005 Raju Pal murder case who is lodged in a Gujarat jail currently. Usman's brother Rakesh Chaudhary is lodged in Naini Central Jail and a dozen of cases, including murder, have been registered against him. ADG (Law and Order) Prashant Kumar confirmed Usman's death and said that a reward of Rs 50,000 had been announced in Usman's name. “On February 26, Arbaaz, the driver of Umesh Pal's assailants, was killed in a police encounter. On February 27, the mastermind of the murder plot, Sadaq...

A banner with the images of Atiq Ahmed (with moustache), prime suspect in Umesh Pal murder, seen during the demolition of an associate’s house in Prayagraj Wednesday. While the authorities say they are targeting illegal structures, the demolition is seen as part of a crackdown against Ahmed and associates | ANI Prayagraj: From a former MP who is said to face 100 cases in Uttar Pradesh, to a suspected “bomb specialist” believed to strike terror in the residents of the Prayagraj locality where he lived. These are among the 10 people booked in the 24 February killing of Umesh Pal, the key witness in the 2005 murder of UP MLA Raju Pal. While three are unknown, 7 have been identified. Five of these are alleged to be on the run, and two — including former MP Atiq Ahmed, also the prime suspect in the case — are currently in jail. Umesh Pal was allegedly at the receiving end of an extortion bid by Atiq and his associates. Atiq Ahmed Currently lodged in Ahmedabad’s Sabarmati jail, Atiq Ahmed is a gangster-turned-politician. The former MP has around 100 cases registered against him, said an Uttar Pradesh Police officer. Ahmed, police say, entered the world of crime when he was all of 17. The first case against him was for alleged murder, a police officer said. Born in Prayagraj, Ahmed is the son of a tonga driver, Haji Feroz, and was raised in a family of limited means. He is said to have failed his Class 10, and police sources said his ambition to become wealthy led hi...

Atiq Ahmed, a former Samajwadi Party MLA and MP who moved to politics after being a gangster in India, was born on August 10, 1962. It is a record that he was elected to the legislative assembly from the Allahabad West constituency five times in a row. He is in news currently after he is being shifted to Uttar Pradesh’s Prayagraj jail, he voiced concern for his safety shortly after leaving the Sabarmati central jail in Ahmedabad, Gujarat, on Sunday. Why was Atiq Ahmed arrested? Atiq Ahmed and his gang were arrested for killing Umesh Pal on 24th February 2023. Umesh Pal was a five-term MP who served intermittently in the Apna Dal, a party allied with the BJP, and the Samajwadi Party (SP) between 2004 and 2009. He was also accused of participating in a number of crimes, such as murders and kidnappings. Why is Atiq Ahmed shifted to UP’s Prayagraj jail? The Prayagraj Court ordered that all accused in the Umesh Pal case appear before it on March 28. At that time, the court would probably issue a ruling on the 2007 kidnapping case of Umesh Pal. Ashraf, one of Atiq Ahmed's brothers, is among the ten people charged in the case. Report card of Atiq Ahmed and his family: According to the Uttar Pradesh police, Atiq Ahmed, a former mafia member who is now a politician, has more than 160 criminal complaints filed against his family. Atiq has been named in 100 cases, compared to 52 instances against his brother Ashraf, three cases against his wife Shaista Praveen, and four and one cases...

In the 2007 Umesh Pal kidnapping case, in which former MP Atiq Ahmed and two others were sentenced to life imprisonment last month, a senior CBI officer had appeared as a defence witness during the trial. Notably, Amit Kumar, who is a deputy superintendent of police-rank officer, is also the investigating officer in the 2005 murder of then BSP MLA Raju Pal in which Atiq Ahmed is a prime accused and has been chargesheeted. Lawyer Umesh Pal, who was shot dead along with his two gunners in Prayagraj on February 24 this year allegedly by jailed Atiq Ahmed’s aides, was a witness in the Raju Pal murder case. Taking a “serious note” of the CBI officer turning up as a defence witness in the court, a senior police officer of Prayagraj said that they are sending a report to the state home department. In 2007, Umesh Pal had filed a police complaint, alleging that he was being regularly threatened and pressured by Atiq and his aides to change statements in the court in the Raju Pal murder case in which he was a witness. Umesh had also said that he had given a false statement in court under pressure from Atiq. Based on his complaint, Prayagraj police registered an The 2005 Raju Pal murder case, in which Atiq is also the prime accused, was initially probed by Prayagraj police and was transferred to the CBI in 2016. While Prayagraj police had named Umesh Pal as a witness in the case, the CBI probe, led by Amit Kumar, dropped him from the list of witnesses. In his testimony before the Pra...

New Delhi: A man allegedly involved in the killing of a witness in a BSP MLA's murder case last month was shot dead in an encounter, Uttar Pradesh police said today. According to police, Usman was one of the six shooters who Shocking visuals of the killing captured by a CCTV camera went viral, prompting questions on the state's law and order situation. Faced with tough questions from the Opposition on the daylight crime, Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath had said that the government will crush those involved in the crime. Referring to the Chief Minister's remark, Shalabh Mani Tripathi, BJP MLA and former advisor to the Chief Minister, tweeted in Hindi this morning, "We had said we would crush them. The man who fired the first bullet at Umesh Pal was shot dead in an encounter." Dr Badri Vishal Singh, medical officer at a Prayagraj hospital, said Usman was brought in dead. "We performed the examination, following which he was declared dead and the body was sent to the mortuary. He was shot." Umesh Pal was a key witness in the murder of Raju Pal, a BSP legislator murdered months after winning the Allahabad (West) Assembly seat by defeating former Samajwadi Party MP Atiq Ahmed's younger brother Khalid Azim. Atiq Ahmed, his brother and former MLA Ashraf are accused in the Raju Pal murder case and are currently in jail. Hitting back at the Opposition amid the uproar over Umesh Pal's murder, Chief Minister Adityanath had said that Atiq Ahmed was an MP from Akhilesh Yadav's Samajwadi...

An accused in the Umesh Pal murder case, Vijay alias Usman Chowdhary, was killed in a police encounter early on Monday in Prayagraj’s Kaundhiyara. Usman Chowdhary is said to be the the first to fire in the An encounter broke out between the police and the accused Vijay alias Usman in the Kaundhiyara police station area, said Ramit Sharma, Commissioner of Police, Prayagraj. Arbaz, another accused in the Umesh Pal murder case, was killed in an encounter with police last Monday, following Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath’s statement in the UP Assembly that mafia “ko One of the accused in Umesh Pal murder case, shot dead in an encounter with the police in Uttar Pradesh Umesh Pal, the key witness in the 2005 BSP MLA Raju Pal murder case, and his police security guard Sandeep Nishad were shot dead on February 24 outside his home in the Dhoomanganj area of Prayagraj. A second police constable, deployed in the security of Umesh Pal and was injured in the shooutout, succumbed to his injuries on Wednesday, March 1. Reacting to Usman death in the encounter, UP Deputy CM Brajesh Pathak said police and STF have been deployed to keep situation under control, adding that investigation is underway. “Police shot the accused and are investigating. Everyone involved will get punished by the law," Pathak said. The Uttar Pradesh Police on Sunday had announced a reward of Rs 2.5 lakh each for giving information about the five people, including gangster and former MP Atiq Ahmad’s son...