Mau (Uttar Pradesh): Uttar Pradesh Police arrested BJP leader Dr. Alka Rai and her brother Sheshnath Rai on Tuesday in connection with the Mukhtar Ansari ambulance case. Police registered a case under the Gangsters Act against Ansari and 12 others in the case for allegedly using an ambulance to travel from jail to a Punjab court. The two accused -- Alka Rai and her brother Sheshnath Rai-- were taken to Barabanki from Mau by police. The case is related to providing an ambulance facility by Rai to gangster-turned-politician Mukhtar Ansari while he was lodged in Ropar Jail in Punjab. Notably, Ansari is currently lodged in Banda jail.
