ahmedabad a team of uttar pradesh police on tuesday early morning reached sabarmati central jail in gujarat and took custody of gangsterturnedpolitician atiq ahmed in connection with the umesh pal murder case in uttar pradeshumesh and two cops were killed in a shootout in prayagraj on february 24 this year0032no criminal will be spared in up deputy cm on gangster atiq ahmad37 cops reach sabarmati jailin 2007 ahmeds aides had allegedly kidnapped umesh who was a key witness in the bsp worker raju pals murdera team of prayagraj police of up comprising 37 cops reached the sabarmati jail and took ahmeds custody and left for prayagraj via road they had come with a court order after which ahmeds custody was handed over to them said sabarmati jail superintendent of police tejas patelthe uttar pradesh police had on march 26 also taken ahmad to prayagraj in up to produce him in a court on march 28 the court there had sentenced him to life imprisonment in the umesh pal kidnapping casethe 60yearold former uttar pradesh mla and lok sabha member was brought back to the highsecurity jail in gujarat in a up police van on march 29 after a nearly 24hourlong road journey from prayagrajatiq to be quizzedahmad is likely to be taken to prayagraj for interrogation in the umesh pal murder case he saidthey did not tell us when he would be taken back to sabarmati said patelthe supreme court had in april 2019 directed ahmad be shifted to the highsecurity jail in gujarat after he was accused of orchestrating the kidnapping and assault of a real estate businessman mohit jaiswal while in jailhe has been lodged in the jail here since june 2019 ahmad has been named in more than 100 criminal cases including the recent umesh pal murder caseahmad last month moved the supreme court for protection claiming he and his family have been falsely implicated as accused in the umesh pal murder case in prayagraj and he may be killed in a fake encounter by the up policein his plea ahmad said the up police were in all likelihood seeking his transit remand and police remand to take him from ahmedabad to prayagraj and he genuinely apprehends that he may be eliminated during this transit periodit is not right they want to kill me ani quoted atiq ahmed as saying on tuesdaywith ani inputs