DNA Verified: Atiq Ahmed’s son Ali is ‘absolutely fine’, police refute reports claiming he is injured

Atiq Ahmed's son, Ali, who is lodged in Naini Central Jail is absolutely fine. A few reports regarding him circulating in the media are false, the Director General Prison office in Uttar Pradesh clarified on Monday.

Some media reports have claimed that slain gangster-politician Atiq Ahmed’s son Ali Ahmed has injured himself by banging his head on a wall at the Naini central prison in Prayagraj. He was being shifted to a hospital from the prison where he is lodged, reports had added.

Atiq Ahmed and his brother Ashraf alias Khalid Azeem were buried in their ancestral village on Sunday amid tight security. He was laid to rest beside the grave of his son Asad Ahmed, who was buried at the same graveyard on Saturday. Asad was killed along with an aide in a police encounter in Jhansi district on April 13.

Atiq Ahmed had five sons. The eldest, Umar, is currently lodged in a Lucknow jail on charges of extortion, assault and kidnapping involving a Lucknow-based businessman Mohit Jaiswal in 2018. He had surrendered before the CBI in August last year.

Ali is Atiq’s second son. He is lodged in Prayagraj’s Naini jail for demanding Rs 5 crore from a property dealer. He also has another case of extortion and one case of attempt to murder against him.

Asad, killed in the Jhansi encounter, was Atiq Ahmed’s third son. His two minor sons are in a juvenile shelter home. They were brought to attend Atiq’s funeral.

(Inputs from IANS, PTI)