Asad and his co-accused Ghulam had been gunnder down by UP police on Thursday.
New Delhi:
Murder accused Asad Ahmed and Ghulam, gunned down in Jhansi on Thursday by the Uttar Pradesh police, deliberate to assault the convoy transporting dreaded gangster-turned-politician, and Asad’s father, Atiq Ahmed, high sources mentioned in the present day. They did not plan to interrupt Atiq free because the safety was tight, however would have fired just a few rounds on the convoy to sensationalise the case to embarrass the Uttar Pradesh authorities, sources mentioned.
Asad and his co-accused wished inquiries to be raised on Atiq’s safety in order that his switch from Sabarmati jail in Gujarat to UP can be halted, they mentioned.
After the homicide of Umesh Pal, it had turn into troublesome for Atiq and his brother Ashraf to make sure the protection of Asad, sources mentioned, including that Atiq had additionally sought assist from his acquaintances to guard his son.
Sources mentioned Asad had a gathering along with his uncle Ashraf for round two hours and ten minutes on the day that his father and two others had been sentenced to life imprisonment after a court docket in Prayagraj discovered them responsible within the 2006 Umesh Pal kidnapping case.
The plan to kill Umesh Pal was hatched on February 11, they mentioned. Eight associates of Asad had been additionally current within the assembly, reportedly organized in collusion with jail authorities, with Ashraf in Bareilly jail. There had been no safety cameras on the spot. Umesh Pal was murdered 13 days later.
Atiq and Ashraf have confessed to the assembly, police sources mentioned.
Umesh Pal, the important thing witness within the BSP MLA Raju Pal homicide case, and his police safety guards Raghavendra Singh and Sandeep Nishad, had been shot lifeless outdoors his house in Prayagraj’s Dhoomanganj on February 24.
After Umesh Pal’s homicide on February 24, Asad hid at a home in Prayagraj for a day, police sources mentioned. He went to Kanpur on February 26 on a motorbike, then to Delhi’s Anand Vihar on a bus, and stayed at Jamia Nagar and Sangam Vihar areas within the south of the nationwide capital.
Asad left for Ajmer in Rajasthan on March 15 and headed to Mumbai later, after which he travelled to Jhansi by Nashik and Kanpur. He stayed for just a few days in any respect of those locations, police sources mentioned.
Asad did not journey by practice and stored utilizing buses or different technique of highway transport for his virtually 4,000 km journey. Most of his time was spent in commute.
Sources mentioned a person named Haidar, who’s at the moment lodged in Bareilly jail, helped Asad conceal in Delhi. Police have arrested three of Haidar’s associates from Delhi.
On March 28, Atiq Ahmed was convicted by an MP-MLA court docket and sentenced to rigorous life imprisonment within the abduction case of now-dead Umesh Pal. Atiq Ahmed and his household got here beneath the scanner as CCTV footage confirmed how Mr Pal was murdered by indiscriminate firing and a bomb blast. 19-year-old Asad was seen chasing Umesh Pal with a gun in hand.
Atiq Ahmed, who has over 100 instances towards him over the past 43 years, has been convicted in the identical case.