Ghazipur court convicts Mukhtar Ansari in gangster case, gets 10 years in prison

Mafia turned politician Mukhtar Ansari has been convicted and sentenced 10 years imprisonment. An MP MLA court in Ghazipur convicted him in a gangster case and awarded him 10 years in jail and a fine of Rs 5 lakh.

Ghazipur's MP MLA court on Saturday convicted jailed mafia Mukhtar Ansari in a gangster case and sentenced him to 10 years imprisonment and a fine of Rs 5 lakh. The verdict against Mukhtar Ansari's elder brother, BSP MP Afzal Ansari, who is an accused in the case, has been reserved by the court.

On September 23, 2022, the Lucknow bench of the Allahabad High Court sentenced him to five years in prison in a case filed under the Gangster Act in 1999. In this 23-year-old case, the court also slapped a Rs 50,000 punishment on Mukhtar.

Mukhtar Ansari was charged with murder in January in connection with the 2001 'Usri Chatti' gang war event. Ansari was charged under Section 302 of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) at Ghazipur Police Station Mohammadabad. The cases include the murder of constable Raghuvansh Singh and a murderous assault on an additional SP of Ghazipur among others.

The case dates to 2003 when Lucknow district prison jailer SK Awasthi lodged an FIR saying that he was threatened to order a search of the people who came to meet Ansari in prison.

Earlier, security was beefed up in Uttar Pradesh's Ghazipur ahead of the verdict in a kidnapping and murder case involving Mukhtar Ansari and his elder brother, BSP MLA from the city Afzal Ansari.