I am being harassed in Jail, my family is ruined…spare them: Atiq

Gangster-politician Atiq Ahmad on Wednesday claimed he was being harassed in the Sabarmati Central Jail in Gujarat. He also claimed that his family was ruined, but he was safe because of the media.
A police team from Uttar Pradesh on Tuesday left with gangster-politician Atiq Ahmad from the high security Sabarmati Central Jail in Gujarat’s Ahmedabad city for Prayagraj by road in connection with Umesh Pal murder case. The team stopped at Survaya police station in Madhya Pradesh’s Shivpuri district on Wednesday for about 20 minutes, where mediapersons asked questions to Ahmad at around 7 am.
“My family is ruined. I am safe because of you,” the 60-year-old former Uttar Pradesh MLA and Lok Sabha member told reporters. “I am safe because of you people. I have not telephoned anyone from there (inside the jail) as jammers were installed there. I have not hatched any conspiracy and have been behind bars for the last six years,” he said.
“I am totally reduced to dust, but please don’t trouble the women and children of my family now,” gangster-politician Atiq Ahmad told reporters from inside a police van on Wednesday, Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath’s “mafiaaon ko mitti me mila denge” warning probably playing on his mind.
While he was on the way, he spoke to the mediapersons from inside the police van. He pleaded the government to spare his family members.