In a case involving the abduction and murder of BJP MLA Krishnanand Rai, an MP MLA court in Ghazipur, Uttar Pradesh, found incarcerated mafia member Mukhtar Ansari guilty on Saturday and sentenced him to 10 years in prison.
The incarcerated gang was also given a fine of Rs. 5 lakh. He almost appeared before the court today.
The late BJP MLA Krishnanand Rai’s widow said earlier today that the mafia’s control in Uttar Pradesh has come to an end and that she has trust in the courts. Rai was killed in Ghazipur in 2005, reportedly by gangster-turned-politician Mukhtar Ansari and his brother Afzal Ansari.
“I have faith in the legal system. Alka Rai, the late BJP MLA Krishnanand Rai’s wife who was assassinated in Ghazipur in 2005, said that the rule of the goondas and mafias had ended (in the state).
The judgement in the case against gangster-turned-politician Mukhtar Ansari and his brother Afzal Ansari will be announced today by the Ghazipur MP-MLA court.
Security was increased in the days leading up to the MP-MLA court’s decision on Saturday in the abduction and murder case involving gangster-turned-politician Mukhtar Ansari, his older brother, and BSP MP Afzal Ansari.
The police filed a murder complaint against Mukhtar Ansari in connection with the 2001 “Usri Chatti” gang war event earlier in January of this year.
Ansari was charged with a crime under section 302 of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) at PS Mohammadabad in Ghazipur.
Earlier on January 18, the Allahabad High Court overturned the Ghazipur MP/MLA Court’s March 15 judgement allowing Ansari to be held in Banda’s top-class prison.
The court had said that the special court’s ruling was without jurisdiction and that gangster and infamous criminal Bahubali Ansari was not legally entitled to get a more lenient sentence.
Ansari and Bhim Singh were previously found guilty of five counts of attempted murder and murder on December 15 of last year, and the Gangster Court in Ghazipur sentenced them to ten years in jail.
The charges include, among other things, the murder of Ghazipur’s assistant SP and policeman Raghuvansh Singh.
Mukhtar Ansari was found guilty and given a sentence on September 21 by the Lucknow division of the Allahabad High Court for threatening and brandishing a gun at prisoner SK Awasthi. The case began in 2003 when jailer SK Awasthi of Lucknow District Prison filed a FIR claiming that he had been intimidated with ordering a search of visitors who came to see Ansari in jail.
In a case filed in 1999 under the Gangster Act, the Lucknow bench of the Allahabad High Court sentenced him to five years on September 23. In this 23-year-old case, the court additionally assessed Mukhtar a Rs 50,000 fine.