Gangster-turned-politician Mukhtar Ansari dies after heart attack

Gangster-turned-politician Mukhtar Ansari at present died following a heart attack. He was 60. Section 144 imposed in a number of districts of Uttar Pradesh — Mau, Ghazipur whereas safety have been beefed up in a number of areas together with Ghaziour, Balia and Pryagraj the place the gangster had huge affect. 

Gangster-turned-politician Mukhtar Ansari was delivered to Banda Medical College Hospital after his well being deteriorated on Thursday.

Earlier, Mukhtar Ansari was shifted from Uttar Pradesh’s Rani Durgawati Medical College to jail after his discharge on Tuesday. 

Mukhtar Ansari was admitted to a hospital in Uttar Pradesh’s Banda on Tuesday after he complained of belly ache in jail. Ansari’s lawyer, Naseem Haider, claimed that the previous MLA within the Uttar Pradesh meeting is experiencing issue talking. Earlier on March 13, Ansari was sentenced to life imprisonment in a case associated to the usage of solid paperwork for acquiring an arms licence in 1990. 

This was the eighth case wherein the previous five-time MLA has been convicted and sentenced by a courtroom in Uttar Pradesh prior to now two years.

Before this, in December 2023, the MP/MLA Court of Varanasi had discovered Mukhtar Ansari responsible of threatening Mahavir Prasad Rungta, a witness within the homicide of 26-year-old coal businessman Nand Kishor Rungta, and had sentenced him to 5 and a half years of rigorous imprisonment and slapped a positive of Rs 10,000 in opposition to him.

On October 15, final 12 months, the Enforcement Directorate hooked up lands, a constructing and financial institution deposits value greater than Rs 73.43 lakh as a part of the cash laundering investigation in opposition to Mukhtar Ansari. 

(with inputs from ANI)