Atiq Ahmed on Wednesday confessed to plotting the killing of Umesh Pal, the key witness in a 2005 high-profile murder case, according to his remand copy. The document also reveals the role of Ato's wife Sahista Parveen in the killing. The killing of the two policemen accompanying Umesh Pal was also pre-planned, going by the remand note.
Asad Ahmad, son of infamous gangster-turned-politician Atiq Ahmad, was killed in an encounter with the Uttar Pradesh police. The authorities had received intelligence reports of a possible attack on a police convoy in Jhansi to free Ahmad's father., India News, Times Now
Uttar Pradesh’s ADG Law and Order Prashant Kumar said Asad had planned an attack at police convoy while his father Atiq was being shifted from Sabarmati Jail to UP jail.