The Uttar Pradesh police convoy carrying gangster-turned-politician Atiq Ahmed from Ahmedabad to Prayagraj entered Jhansi on Wednesday morning.The 60-year-old former Uttar Pradesh MLA and Lok Sabha member is being transported to Prayagraj for a court hearing in connection with a criminal case.On March 26, the UP Police had brought Ahmad to Prayagraj from Sabarmati jail in Ahmedabad for hearing in the 2006 case Umesh Pal kidnapping case. Two days later, the court sentenced him and two others to life imprisonment in the kidnapping case.On March 29, Ahmad was taken back to Sabarmati jail.In April 2019, the Supreme Court ordered authorities to shift Ahmad to a high-security jail in Gujarat after he was accused of orchestrating the kidnapping and assault of real estate businessman Mohit Jaiswal from a jail in Uttar Pradesh.Ahmad has been named in more than hundred criminal cases. Ahmad was allegedly involved in the murder of Raju Pal, the Bahujan Samaj Party MLA who was shot dead in 2005.Umesh Pal, a key witness in this murder case, was gunned down outside his residence in Prayagraj on February 24 this year.Last month, Ahmad moved the Supreme Court for protection, claiming he and his family were being falsely implicated as accused in the Umesh Pal murder case and he could be killed in a fake encounter by the UP Police.In his plea, Ahmad said the UP Police were in all likelihood seeking his transit remand and police remand to take him from Ahmedabad to Prayagraj and he "genuinely apprehends that he may be eliminated during this transit period".