Mukhtar Ansari: Who is Mukhtar Ansari, its name used to ring in Purvanchal, UP
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New Delhi: Gangster Mukhtar Ansari, who threatened Uttar Pradesh's Purvanchal region for decades with his fear and terror. Punjab has finally reached Banda's jail. This Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) MLA used all the tricks to not get the hand of the UP Police but all his tricks in the Supreme Court were lost. Following the apex court's order, the Punjab government handed him over to the UP police.Ansari will now be lodged in Banda's jail.A large number of police personnel will be deployed in and around the prison premises to protect him. The UP government had argued in the court that the list of crimes against Ansari is long which has to be disposed of. The gangster was lodged in Rupnagar Jail in Punjab since January 2019 in a ransom case. Now it will be kept in barrack number 15 of Banda Jail. The list of crimes against BSP MLA Ansari from Mau is long.According to the UP police, a total of 52 cases have been registered against him in the state and elsewhere. Of these, 15 cases are in the preliminary stage of their trial. It is not that the UP Police has not taken action against Ansari. Police have so far arrested 96 people linked to Ansari in criminal cases and seized and recovered assets worth Rs 192 crore belonging to the gangster and his associates. Ansari is the main accused in the 2005 murder of BJP MLA Krishnanand Rai in the world of crime since the 1990s Ansari's name in the world of crime began in the 1990s. Initially, he started doing property and contract work and then gradually entered the world of goryam. In November 2005, he was charged with the murder of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MLA Krishnanand Rai. However, Ansari was in jail at the time when Rai was killed. In July 2019, a special CBI court released Ansari. Accused in killing mow contractor In 2009 48 FIRs were registered against gangsters, including 10 for murder. Ansari's name also figured in the murder of contractor Ajay Prakash Singh in Mau. In 2017, Ansari escaped from a local court in Ghazipur in this murder case. Not only this, Ram Singh Maurya, the witness of Singh's murder, was also killed in 2010. A case was registered against Ansari for his alleged role in the murder contested the assembly for the first time in 1996 Ansari, who belongs to an elite family, first contested the assembly elections in 1996 on a BSP ticket from Mau seat, but the party did not give him a ticket in the 2002 election. He then went to the assembly after contesting as an independent. He later joined the BSP once again. In 2009, he contested the Lok Sabha election against BJP's strongman Murli Manohar Joshi. He had to face defeat in this election. |