'They want to kill me': Atiq Ahmed before being taken to UP from Sabarmati jail

Soon after stepping out of the Sabarmati central jail here before being taken to Prayagraj by the Uttar Pradesh police, gangster-turned-politician Atiq Ahmed on Sunday expressed fear that he might be murdered. When some reporters asked him when he was being taken to a police van why he was feeling afraid, the former Samajwadi Party MP said, 'I know their programme...They want to murder me', PTI reported

" A team of the Uttar Pradesh police reached the Sabarmati jail in Ahmedabad city in the morning and left the premises with Ahmed amid tight security around 6 pm after completing the necessary formalities. He will be produced before a court in Praygraj city of UP on March 28 when it passes an order in a kidnapping case in which he is an accused, officials said.