New Delhi: The convoy of gangster-turned-politician Atiq Ahmed, being escorted by Uttar Pradesh police to Prayagraj, on Monday (March 27, 2023) hit a cow in the Shivpuri district of Madhya Pradesh. The incident reportedly occurred around 6:25 AM when the cow was darting towards the road and was hit by the vehicle carrying Ahmed, who is being taken to Prayagraj by the UP police for a court case.

In a video now going viral on social media platforms, the cow is seen falling near the road divider, following which the vehicles stopped for a while before resuming the onward journey. 

According to reports, Atiq Ahmed was travelling in the vehicle that hit the cow, which got up after a while and went away.

Meanwhile, his carcade, which entered MP from the Rajasthan border in the morning, hours after it set out from the Sabarmati central jail in Ahmedabad on Sunday evening, has now entered Uttar Pradesh. 

It halted briefly at Kharai in Shivpuri district at around 7 AM to enable Ahmed to attend nature’s call and then entered UP’s Jhansi district at around 9 AM.

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Ahmed, a former Samajwadi Party MP, was lodged in Gujarat’s Sabarmati central jail since June 2019. He was shifted there following a Supreme Court order after he was accused of orchestrating the kidnapping and assault on real estate businessman Mohit Jaiswal while in prison in UP.

Ahmed is named in more than 100 criminal cases, including the recent Umesh Pal murder case.