Atiq Ahmed Age, Height, Weight

Atiq Ahmed Age, Height, Weight: Atiq Ahmed was a former Indian politician born on August 10, 1962, in Prayagraj, India.

He was a former member of the Indian Parliament and the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly from the Samajwadi Party.

Atiq Ahmed was convicted of kidnapping and also had more than 100 criminal cases registered against him and had been in jail since 2019.

Dozens of cases, including kidnapping, murder, and extortion, were registered against Atiq Ahmed over the past two decades

Atiq Ahmed was first accused in a murder case in 1979. He had a long stint both in politics and with the criminal world.

He won his first election as an independent candidate and became a state lawmaker in 1989.

Ahmed went on to win the seat for two consecutive terms and his fourth win came as a lawmaker from the regional Samajwadi Party (SP).

In 2004, he won a seat in the federal election as an SP candidate and became an MP. Ahmed contested a few more elections in the next decade but lost all of them.

Recently, he was being questioned in the February (2023) murder of Umesh Pal, a key witness in the 2005 murder of Raju Pal, a lawmaker belonging to the regional Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP).

On March 28, 2023, the court sentenced Atiq Ahmed and two others to life imprisonment in the kidnapping case.

Well, the gangster-turned-politician has been shot dead. Atiq Ahmed, who was under police escort, was talking to reporters when a gun was pulled close to his head and shot him.

#WATCH | Uttar Pradesh: Moment when Mafia-turned-politician Atiq Ahmed and his brother Ashraf Ahmed were shot dead while interacting with media.
(Warning: Disturbing Visuals)
— ANI (@ANI) April 15, 2023

Reports say Atiq Ahmed and his brother Ashraf Ahmed were being escorted for a medical check-up in handcuffs at the time of the attack.

After the shots were fired on Saturday, April 15, three men who had been posing as journalists quickly surrendered and were taken into custody.

The three suspected assailants had arrived at the site on motorcycles, the police said. They got close to the brothers (Atiq Ahmed and Ashraf Ahmed) on the pretext of filming them and then shot them in the head at close range.

In the footage, shared widely on social media and TV channels, Ahmed is asked whether he attended his son’s funeral.

His last words to the camera are: “They did not take us, so we did not go.” On Thursday, Atiq Ahmad’s teenage son and another man, who had both been blamed for a recent murder, were killed by police in what was described as a shootout.

Atiq Ahmed is said to be a Muslim therefore he would be buried as soon as possible. However, Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath has constituted a three-member judicial commission to investigate the matter.

Atiq Ahmed Age

Atiq Ahmed was born on August 10, 1962, in Prayagraj, India. He celebrated his 60th birthday in August last year (2022) before he died in April this year (2023).