Undeterred by threats and even police cases against them, married couple Ruksana and Sadiq continued to make court appearances as eyewitnesses in the BSP MLA Raju Pal murder case. The incident... Pooja Pal is an Indian politician from Uttar Pradesh. She is the wife of former Allahabad West MLA Raju Pal who was gunned down in broad daylight soon after defeating Ashraf Ahmad in the 2004 elections for the seat. Subsequently, Ashraf Ahmad, who was named as the prime accused in the murder [2] became the MLA in 2005. However, in the 2007 Uttar Pradesh state assembly elections, Ashraf was defeated by Pooja Pal. Pooja Pal had filed a request for a CBI investigation into the murder of Raju ... In 2023, Atiq Ahmed was shot dead, marking a dramatic shift in Prayagraj's political landscape since BSP leader Raju Pal's 2005 murder. Raju Pal's wife praised the Yogi government. Raju Pal was a BSP MLA from Phulpur, Uttar Pradesh, who was killed in 2005 by a group of assailants allegedly linked to Atiq Ahmed. He was married to Pooja Pal, another politician, and had a brother-in-law Umesh Pal, who was also killed in 2023.
