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Feeling the heat: Atiq Ahmed, MP.

Allahabad: A non-bailable warrant has been issued against Samajwadi Party strongman and MP Atiq Ahmed asking him to surrender before police within a week in connection with alleged abduction and intimidation of an eyewitness in the BSP MLA Raju Pal murder case.

“Proceedings have been initiated against Atiq Ahmed, the Lok Sabha member from Phoolpur under section 82 of CrPC following an FIR lodged in the Dhoomanganj police station in the city by Umesh Pal, an eyewitness in the Raju Pal murder case,” DIG, Allahabad Range, Vijai Kumar told PTI here.

He said as part of the proceedings, a notice was put out at Atiq’s residence in the city on Wednesday, whereby he has been asked to surrender before police within a week, failing which he would be declared an absconder and his property would be attached.

The DIG said Umesh Pal, who is also a member of the Zila Panchayat and a relative of Raju Pal, had alleged that he was picked up by Atiq’s henchmen on February 28, 2006, and taken to Atiq’s office in the Chakia locality where he was beaten up and asked to retract from his statement before the trial court.

Atiq’s brother Ashraf, a former MLA and co-accused in the Raju Pal murder case, had been declared an absconder last week.

Raju Pal was shot dead here in broad daylight on January 25, 2005, three months after his electoral debut from the Allahabad West Assembly seat.

In the by-poll that followed the death of Pal, Ashraf wrested the seat surmounting a strong sympathy wave in favour of the slain MLA’s wife Puja who was fielded by the BSP.

However, in the Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections held this year, Puja managed to defeat Ashraf by a margin of around 10,000 votes.

The crackdown on Atiq and Ashraf follows the promise made by Mayawati during the election campaign and reiterated by her upon her assuming the Chief Ministership that the culprits in Raju Pal murder case would be brought to justice once her party was voted to power. -- PTI

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