CBI files chargesheet in Ateeq Ahmed case
New Delhi: The CBI has filed a chargesheet against Jafar Ullah, a close associate of former UP MP Ateeq Ahmed, in an extortion case, where Ahmed himself has been named as an accused.
Jafar Ullah is currently in judicial custody, lodged in Lucknow Jail.
The Central Bureau of Investigation had last month registered a case against Ahmed on charges of extortion, cheating, and forgery.
According to the probe agency, Ahmed's associates had allegedly abducted Mohit Jaiswal, a real estate developer, brought him to Deoria Jail, where Ahmed was lodged at the time, and forcefully made him transfer his companies in the name of his associates.
As per the FIR, Ahmed and more than 10 of his associates brutally beat Jaiswal and dislocated his right ring finger. Jaiswal had several other internal and external injuries from the incident.
Earlier, sources familiar with developments had said that four firms, namely MJ Infra Housing, MJ
Infra Green, MJ Infra Land, and MJ Infra State were transferred to Ahmed's associates forcefully inside the jail premises. He was also forced to make bogus signatures of his sister on blank pages.
A few weeks ago, CBI
officials had visited Deoria Jail in Uttar Pradesh to speak to
jail officials about the case against the former Samajwadi Party MP.
Sources in the know had said that the CBI team as part of its investigation into the case, had visited the UP jail in order to speak to jail officials as part of their basic enquiry as to how Jaiswal was brought in the jail and extorted without any interference from them. Further, they said that relevant documents have been collected from the UP Police and are being scrutinised.
Initially, state police had registered an FIR in 2018, and in the complaint, the incident is said to have occurred on December 26, last year.
Ahmad was a Samajwadi Party (SP) member in the 14th Lok Sabha from Phulpur in Uttar Pradesh from 2004 to 2009. Jaiswal, who has a real estate business in the posh Gomti Nagar area in Lucknow, had alleged that Ahmad was threatening him with extortion for the last two years.
