Raju Pal, a Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) leader from Allahabad in Uttar Pradesh, was gunned down on January 25, 2005, as a result of political rivalry with Atiq Ahmad s brother Ashraf, whom he had defeated in the 2004 bypoll to the Prayagraj West seat.
In a criminal career spanning 44 years and over 120 cases, the dreaded gangster-turned-politician was convicted for the first time on Tuesday and awarded a life term for the 2006 abduction of now-deceased Umesh Pal