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CBI Books Former Samajwadi Party Ateeq Ahmad for Extortion of Businessman

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New Delhi: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has booked a former member of parliament Ateeq Ahmad and others for allegedly orchestrating the abduction of a Lucknow-based businessman from Deoria Jail to extort money from him and take over his business, officials said on Thursday.

The CBI has registered a case against Ahmad, former Samajwadi Party (SP) member of parliament from Uttar Pradesh, on the charges of criminal conspiracy, extortion, cheating, forgery, robbery and criminal intimidation, officials added.

But the CBI has not added the Indian Penal Code (IPC) sections related to abduction in its FIR.

According to the procedure, the CBI takes over the probe on an FIR registered by the state police without adding or deleting any charges. However, it can add or delete any charge at the time of filing its final report in court.