Mukhtar Ansari, a former mafia member turned politician, was convicted and sentenced to ten years in prison...
Digital Desk: On Saturday, Ghazipur's MP MLA court convicted incarcerated mafia Mukhtar Ansari in a gangster case and sentenced him to 10 years in prison and a Rs 5 lakh punishment. The judgement in the case against Mukhtar Ansari's elder brother, BSP MP Afzal Ansari, has been reserved by the court.
In a case filed under the Gangster Act in 1999, the Lucknow bench of the Allahabad High Court sentenced him to five years in prison on September 23, 2022. The court also imposed a Rs 50,000 fine on Mukhtar in this 23-year-old case.
In January, Mukhtar Ansari was accused with murder in connection with the 2001 'Usri Chatti' gang war. Ansari was booked at Ghazipur Police Station Mohammadabad with violating Section 302 of the Indian Penal Code (IPC). Among the cases are the murder of constable Raghuvansh Singh and a violent assault on an additional Ghazipur SP.
The case began in 2003, when Lucknow district prison jailer SK Awasthi filed a FIR alleging that he was intimidated with ordering a search of those who came to see Ansari in prison.
Prior to the judgement in a kidnap and murder case involving Mukhtar Ansari and his elder brother, BSP MLA from the city Afzal Ansari, security was tightened up in Uttar Pradesh's Ghazipur.
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