New Delhi, March 1 : Uttar Pradesh’s mafia don-turned-former MP Atiq Ahmed has moved the Supreme Court against shifting him to Prayagraj from Sabarmati jail in a case connected with the killing of a witness in an open shooting incident. Ahmed apprehends a threat to his life in an encounter by the police.

Ahmed, in a plea, contended that some local leaders had conspired the murder plan of the deceased Umesh Pal who is a complainant in a case against the petitioner in which his evidence got recorded six years ago.

Umesh Pal, one of the witnesses, was killed on February 25 in Prayagraj in which the wife of Ahmed, all four sons and brother have been roped in as accused of “mere suspicion”.