Mafia Atiq was transported from Sabarmati Jail in Prayagraj, which is roughly 1300 km distant, by the Uttar Pradesh police agency, who then transported him back. Transporting Atiq’s brother Khalid Azim, nicknamed Ashraf, between the Bareilly prison and Prayagraj cost a comparable sum of money.
According to media sources, the Prayagraj Police had to spend more than Rs 25 Lakh last month on transportation for the two infamous gangster-turned-politicians of Uttar Pradesh. Atiq Ahmed was detained in Gujarat’s Ahmedabad in the remote Sabarmati Central Jail. Ashraf, the brother of Atiq, is detained in Bareilly Jai, which is also 450 km from the Prayagraj Court, where the two brothers were scheduled to appear in connection with the abduction case of Umesh Pal.
The criminal brothers arrived in Prayagraj on March 27 and spent the night at Naini Jail before making their court appearance. On March 28, the court found Atiq and two other defendants guilty while clearing Ashraf of any wrongdoing. The two leaders were returned to their original prisons right away after the court’s decision.
Atiq Ahmed, a criminal-turned-politician-mafia, has now been returned to Prayagraj by the police squad, according to ANI. He is being brought to Prayagraj by police after they obtained a production warrant in a murder case with the judge’s approval.
According to a police official cited by Dainik Jagran, it would take roughly 2600 km to transport Atiq Ahmed from Sabarmati Jail to Prayagraj and back. Two jail vans and two compact cars like Bolero make up the cavalcade that transports Ahmed.
Since the prison vans travel five kilometres on average per litre of diesel, the cost of fuel for the two prison vans used to transport and return Ahmed was around 95 thousand rupees. Two compact automobiles cost more than Rs 40,000, with an average cost per km of Rs 12. In other words, a single trip’s gasoline costs were more than one lakh thirty five thousand rupees.
If the salaries and travel expenses of 35 police officers, one deputy special police officer, and two inspectors on security duty are also included, the total rises to more than six lakh rupees. The police agency is spending more than eight lakh rupees on Atiq alone after adding everything up and travelling back and forth between Sabarmati and Prayagraj. Additionally, Ashraf pays more than three lakh rupees for a single round.