New Delhi: Ghazipur’s MP MLA court today convicted jailed mafia Mukhtar Ansari in a gangster case and sentenced him to 10 years imprisonment and a fine of Rs 5 lakh.
Earlier in the day, the security was heightened ahead of the verdict by an MP-MLA court in Uttar Pradesh’s Ghazipur.
#WATCH | UP: Ghazipur’s MP-MLA court to pronounce verdict today in a kidnapping and murder case against gangster-turned-politician Mukhtar Ansari, his elder brother & Ghazipur BSP MP Afzal Ansari; security visuals from Ghazipur pic.twitter.com/ZAqUvSNXFT
— ANI UP/Uttarakhand (@ANINewsUP) April 29, 2023
Today, the wife of late BJP MLA Krishnanand Rai who was murdered in Ghazipur in 2005 allegedly by gangster-turned-politician Mukhtar Ansari and his brother Afzal Ansari said that the rule of mafia has ended in Uttar Pradesh and that she has faith in the judiciary.
#WATCH | UP: “I believe in the judiciary. Rule of Goondas, Mafias have ended (in the state),” says Alka Rai, wife of late BJP MLA Krishnanand Rai who was murdered in Ghazipur in 2005
Ghazipur MP-MLA court will today pronounce the verdict in the case, in which… pic.twitter.com/0xcjUe3df7
— ANI UP/Uttarakhand (@ANINewsUP) April 29, 2023
This year in January, the police registered a murder case against Mukhtar Ansari in connection to the 2001 ‘Usri Chatti’ gang war incident.
A case was registered against Ansari under section 302 of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) at PS Mohammadabad in Ghazipur.
Also, UP Police announced a bounty of Rs 25,000 on gangster-turned-politician Mukhtar Ansari’s wife, Afsa Ansari.
