Mukhtar Ansari was sentenced in eight instances since September 2022 by totally different courts in Uttar Pradesh and was lodged in the Banda jail. His identify was on the listing of 66 gangsters issued by Uttar Pradesh Police final 12 months.
Chief Judicial Magistrate’s court in UP’s Banda orders judicial inquiry into the demise of gangster-politician Mukhtar Ansari. A 3-member group will conduct a magisterial investigation into the demise. The gangster-turned-politician died of cardiac arrest at a hospital in Uttar Pradesh’s Banda.
Mukhtar Ansari was subjected to sluggish poisoning in jail, his son Umar Ansari has claimed. ”My father had advised us he was being subjected to ‘sluggish poison’,” Umar Ansari advised reporters and added that all the nation is aware of about it now. Mukhtar Ansari’s brother and Ghazipur MP Afzal Ansari had on Tuesday additionally alleged that he was being subjected to ”sluggish poisoning” in jail.
The cost has been dismissed by the authorities.
For the unversed, Mukhtar Ansari was delivered to the Rani Durgavati Medical College in Banda from the district jail in ”an unconscious state” and, in response to its principal Suneel Kaushal, he died on the hospital following cardiac arrest on Thursday.
The 63-year-old was a five-time MLA from Mau Sadar. He had been behind bars in Uttar Pradesh and Punjab since 2005. He had over 60 prison instances pending towards him.
Mukhtar Ansari was sentenced in eight instances since September 2022 by totally different courts in Uttar Pradesh and was lodged in the Banda jail. His identify was on the listing of 66 gangsters issued by Uttar Pradesh Police final 12 months.
Officials on the police headquarters in Lucknow stated Ansari’s autopsy will probably be finished in Banda and it will likely be videographed. The viscera will probably be preserved if wanted, they stated.
Earlier, Ansari was hospitalised for round 14 hours on Tuesday after he complained of belly ache.
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