Atiq Ahmed Wiki, Age, Wife, Children, Family, Biography & More

Atiq Ahmed is an Indian gangster-turned-politician. He is a former Member of Parliament. Atiq has been elected as a member of the legislative assembly in Uttar Pradesh for five consecutive terms, setting up a record. He is known for having various criminal cases against him including one of the most sensational murders of the Bahujan Samaj Party candidate Raju Pal, who had defeated Atique’s brother Ashraf in the 2004 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly elections. Despite being imprisoned on criminal charges, Atiq has contested several elections, even from jail, and managed to maintain his political influence.

Wiki/Biography

Atiq Ahmed was born on Friday, 10 August 1962 (age 61 years; as of 2023) in Allahabad (now Prayagraj), Uttar Pradesh, India. He attended Majidiya Islamiya Intermediate College (MIC) in Allahabad. Atiq passed his 8th-grade examinations; however, he failed in the 10th grade.

Physical Appearance

Height (approx.): 5′ 7″

Hair Colour: Salt & Pepper (semi-bald)

Eye Colour: Black

Family

Parents & Siblings

His father’s name is Haji Firoz Ahmad. Atiq has a younger brother named Ashraf alias Khalid Azim alias Khalid Azeem Ashraf.

Atiq Ahmed (left) with his brother Ashraf Ahmed

Wife & Children

He got married to Shaista Parveen in 1996.

Atiq Ahmed’s wife, Shaista Parveen

Atiq has five sons, Aizan Ahmed, Ali Ahmed, Umar Ahmed, Aban Ahmed, and one more.

Atiq Ahmed’s son Umar Ahmed

Atiq Ahmed’s son Ali Ahmed

Career

Politician

Member of Legislative Assembly

Atiq Ahmed began his political career as an independent candidate. In 1989, he contested and won the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly elections from the Allahabad West constituency as an independent candidate. He won the 1991 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly elections from the Allahabad West constituency again as an independent candidate. Atiq won the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly elections for the third time as an independent candidate from Allahabad West in 1993. Atiq Ahmed contested and won the 1996 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly from the Allahabad West constituency on a ticket from the Samajwadi Party (SP). He served as the president of Apna Dal for Uttar Pradesh from 1999 to 2003. Atiq was re-elected as an MLA from the Allahabad West constituency in 2002; he contested on a ticket from Apna Dal (Kamerawadi) party. In 2012, Atiq Ahmed contested the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly elections from the Allahabad West constituency on a ticket from the Apna Dal (Kamerawadi) party. According to reports, he contested on Apna Dal (Kamerawadi) party’s ticket because the Samajwadi Party had expelled him and the Bahujan Samaj Party refused to give him a ticket. He filled the nominations for the elections from Basti Jail, Uttar Pradesh while he was waiting for his bail in a Gangster Act case. The 10 judges at the Allahabad High Court refused his petition; however, the 11th judge granted him bail. He was released a day before the elections. Atiq lost the seat to the politician Raju Pal’s widow, Puja Pal. In September 2021, he joined the All India Majlis-E-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) party.

Member of Parliament

In 2004, he contested the General elections for the Phulpur Lok Sabha seat on a ticket from the Samajwadi Party (SP) and was elected to the 14th Lok Sabha. His tenure ended on 16 May 2009.

A Gangster with more than 100 Criminal Cases

Controversies

Cases Where Charges Framed

• 22 charges related to criminal intimidation (IPC Section-506)

• 8 charges related to Murder (IPC Section-302)

• 8 charges related to Attempt to Murder (IPC Section-307)

• 4 charges related to Cheating and dishonesty inducing delivery of property (IPC Section-420)

• 4 charges related to Kidnapping or abducting in order to murder (IPC Section-364)

• 3 charges related to Extortion by putting a person in fear of death or grievous hurt (IPC Section-386)

• 3 charges related to extortion (IPC Section-384)

• 2 charges related to Voluntarily causing hurt to deter public servant from his duty (IPC Section-332)

• 2 charges related to Forgery for purpose of cheating (IPC Section-468)

• 2 charges related to Putting person in fear of death or of grievous hurt, in order to commit extortion (IPC Section-387)

• 2 charges related to House-trespass after preparation of hurt, assault or wrongful restraint (IPC Section-452)

• 2 charges related to Causing disappearance of evidence of offence, or giving false information to screen offender (IPC Section-201)

• 1 charges related to House-trespass in order to commit offence punishable with imprisonment (IPC Section-451)

• 1 charges related to voluntarily causing grievous hurt (IPC Section-325)

• 1 charges related to Promoting enmity between different groups on ground of religion, race, place of birth, residence, language, etc., and doing acts prejudicial to maintenance of harmony (IPC Section-153A)

• 1 charges related to Giving or fabricating false evidence with intent to procure conviction of capital offence (IPC Section-194)

• 1 charges related to Threatening any person to give false information (IPC Section-195A)

• 1 charges related to Kidnapping or abducting with intent secretly and wrongfully to confine person (IPC Section-365)

• 1 charges related to Wrongfully concealing or keeping in confinement, kidnapped or abducted person (IPC Section-368)

• 1 charges related to false evidence (IPC Section-193)

• 1 charges related to dacoity (IPC Section-395)

• 1 charges related to Voluntarily causing hurt to extort property, or to constrain to an illegal act (IPC Section-327)

• 1 charges related to Mischief with intent to destroy or make unsafe a decked vessel or one of twenty tons burden (IPC Section-437)

• 1 charges related to Voluntarily causing hurt in committing robbery (IPC Section-394)

Cases Where Cognizance Taken 

• 19 charges related to Punishment for Rioting (IPC Section-147)

• 19 charges related to Punishment of criminal conspiracy (IPC Section-120B)

• 19 charges related to Intentional insullt with intent to provoke breach of the peace (IPC Section-504)

• 15 charges related to Rioting, armed with deadly weapon (IPC Section-148)

• 13 charges related to Every member of unlawful assembly guilty of offence committed in prosecution of common object (IPC Section-149)

• 13 charges related to Mischief causing damage to the amount of fifty rupees (IPC Section-427)

• 11 charges related to voluntarily causing hurt (IPC Section-323)

• 7 charges related to wrongful Confinement (IPC Section-342)

• 6 charges related to Act endangering life or personal safety of others (IPC Section-336)

• 5 charges related to Acts done by several persons in furtherance of common intention (IPC Section-34)

• 5 charges related to wrongful restraint (IPC Section-341)

• 4 charges related to house trespass (IPC Section-448)

• 3 charges related to Assault or criminal force to deter public servant from discharge of his duty (IPC Section-353)

• 3 charges related to cheating by personation (IPC Section-419)

• 2 charges related to criminal trespass (IPC Section-447)

• 1 charges related to Disobedience to order duly promulgated by public servant (IPC Section-188)

• 1 charges related to making use of any such false mark (IPC Section-488)

• 1 charges related to Negligent conduct with respect to explosive substance (IPC Section-286)

• 1 charges related to Wantonly giving provocation with intent to cause riot-if rioting be committed-if not committed (IPC Section-153)

• 1 charges related to Being member of an unlawful assembly (IPC Section-143)

• 1 charges related to Using as genuine a forged document or electronic record (IPC Section-471)

Atiq Ahmed vs Raju Pal

Atiq Ahmed’s political career has been marked by controversy, particularly with his involvement in the murder of Raju Pal, a candidate of the Bahujan Samaj Party. Raju entered politics in 2002 and became a threat to Atiq and his brother’s political careers. In 2004, when Atiq became the Member of Parliament from Phulpur (also known as Phoolpur), his younger brother Ashraf alias Khalid Azim contested the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly elections from the Allahabad West constituency on a ticket from the Samajwadi Party (SP). Ashraf, however, lost the elections and the Bahujan Samaj Party candidate Raju Pal won. The political rivalry turned into a personal rivalry.

Raju Pal

On 25 January 2005, while Raju Pal was going home from Swaroop Rani Nehru Hospital, Allahabad, a car overtook his Qualis car. Raju was attacked by a group of gangsters in the Sulem Sarai area. According to sources, he was hit by around 18 bullets and two people, Sandeep Yadav and Devi Lal, who were with him were also shot dead. Assailants fired on another car, which belonged to Raju Pal, resulting in injuring three other people named Ruksana, Saif alias Saifulla, and Om Prakash Pal.  The murder was a sensational case that garnered national attention, and Atiq was accused of being the mastermind behind it.

The Murder of Raju Case Witness

Following the murder of Raju Pal, his widow, Puja Pal (also spelt as Pooja Pal), lodged an FIR against Atiq Ahmed and his younger brother Ashraf. In 2006, Puja filed a petition to the Allahabad High Court, requesting a CBI probe into the case. According to sources, Raju Pal’s brother-in-law Umesh Pal, a lawyer, was a key witness in the case.

Umesh Pal

Reportedly, in 2007, the goons of Atiq Ahmed abducted Umesh and threatened him not to bear witness in court. Following this, Umesh filed an FIR at Dhoomanganj Police Station in Allahabad (now Prayagraj) against Atiq and Ashraf. The case was transferred to the state’s crime branch in December 2008, and the officials became successful in arresting Atiq’s brother Ashraf, who absconded after the murder of Raju Pal, in 2011. On 24 February 2023, Umesh Pal was shot dead by armed men, identified as the goons of Atiq Ahmed, near his house in Dhoomanganj’s Sulem Saray locality. According to reports, assailants hurled crude bombs at Umesh Pal and his two gunners and started firing rounds. Following Umesh’s death, his widow, Jaya Pal, lodged an FIR against 27 people, including Atiq Ahmad, his wife, Shaista Parveen, two sons, brother Khalid Azeem aka Ashraf, and others. They were booked under sections 147 (rioting), 148 (rioting, armed with deadly weapon), 149 (unlawful assembly), 302 (murder), 307 (attempt to murder), 506 (criminal intimidation) and 120B (criminal conspiracy) of the Indian Penal Code and provisions of the Explosive Substances Act and the Criminal Law Amendment Act.

SHUATS Assault Case

On 14 December 2016, Atiq and his aides allegedly assaulted the employees of the Sam Higginbottom University of Agriculture, Technology and Sciences (SHUATS) for taking action against students who were caught cheating in an examination. Reportedly, Atiq Ahmad beat the SHUATS teachers and employees, and a video of this incident went viral on the internet. On 10 February 2017, on the Allahabad High Court’s direction, the Allahabad Superintendent of Police arrested Atiq in the case and was sent to Naini Central Prison (or Naini Jail) in Uttar Pradesh. In April 2017, Ahmed was shifted to Deoria jail.

Kidnapping and Assaulting a Businessman in Deoria Jail

Soon after shifting to Deoria jail, Atiq was accused of kidnapping and assaulting a Lucknow-based businessman named Mohit Jaiswal. According to sources, Atiq had asked Mohit for extortion money, which he refused to pay. Reportedly, Mohit was picked up from the Gomti Nagar area of Lucknow by aides of Atiq Ahmed in his SUV and was taken to Deoria jail, Uttar Pradesh, where Atiq Ahmed and his son Umar assaulted him. While talking about this in an interview, Mohit Jaiswal claimed that Atiq forced him to transfer a property worth Rs. 48 crores to his associates.

Businessman Mohit Jaiswal during an interview

Reportedly, two other businessmen accused Atiq of kidnapping and assaulting them in Deoria jail. On 31 December 2018, the government ordered the Deoria jail administration to shift Atiq to Bareilly prison. In June 2019, Atiq was shifted from Prayagraj Central Jail to the Sabarmati Jail in Ahmedabad.

Assets & Properties

Movable Assets

• Bank Deposits: Rs. 1,01,52,759

• Bonds, Debentures & Shares in Companies: Rs. 20,00,000

• Motor Vehicles: Rs. 32,76,000

• Other Assets & Weapons: Rs. 20,64,856

Immovable Assets

• Agricultural Land: Rs. 6,31,58,000

• Non-Agricultural Land: Rs. 7,86,10,000

• Commercial Buildings: Rs. 1,25,00,000

• Residential Buildings: Rs. 9,56,70,000

Note: The given estimates of movable and immovable assets are according to the year 2014. It excludes the assets owned by his wife and dependents (minor).

Net Worth

Atiq Ahmed’s net worth for the financial year 2020-2021 was estimated to be Rs. 26 crores. It excludes the net worth of his wife and dependents (minors).

Facts/Trivia

• Atiq also goes by the name ‘Atiq Pehelwaan.’

• His name is also spelt as Atique Ahmed and Ateeq Ahmed.

• Apart from being a politician, Atiq is also a contractor, property dealer, and agriculturist.

• On 8 August 2002, Atiq Ahmed, the then-sitting MLA from Allahabad West, was attacked by a bomb during a court hearing; however, he survived. Reportedly, he was lodged in jail, owing to his rivalry with Mayawati. Atiq accused the Superintendent of Police Lalji Shukla and the then Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh Mayawati for the attack.