The CBI on Wednesday conducted searches at six locations including Lucknow and Allahabad on the premises of former Samajwadi Party MP Ateeq Ahmed and his associates in connection with a case relating to alleged abduction and assault of a businessman.
Certain incriminating documents and articles have been recovered during the searches, a CBI spokesperson said here.
The agency had registered a case on June 12 for IPC Sections relating to criminal conspiracy, criminal intimidation, extortion, robbery, cheating, forgery, grievous hurt to extort property, rioting and unlawful assembly following a directive from the Supreme Court. The case was originally registered by the Uttar Pradesh Police.
It was alleged in the FIR that the former MP had been demanding extortion money from the Lucknow-based real estate dealer and businessman Mohit Jaiswal.
It was further alleged that when the businessman opposed the same, the associates of Ahmed abducted him from Lucknow in a car and took him to Deoria jail, where the former SP MP was present.
It was further alleged in the FIR that the businessman was criminally intimidated and beaten up by Ahmed and his men and all his four business firms were forcefully transferred in the name of the associates of the dubious politician.
Ahmed was an SP member in the 14th Lok Sabha from Phulpur in Uttar Pradesh from 2004 to 2009.