News of Mukhtar Ansari’s passing: On Thursday, the gangster-turned-politician passed away at a hospital in Banda, Uttar Pradesh, from cardiac arrest.
Death of Mukhtar Ansari: According to news agency ANI, the Uttar Pradesh government has declared a magistrate inquiry into the passing of the gangster-turned-politician. A trio of individuals will be responsible for conducting the magisterial investigation.
On Friday, a group of two doctors will conduct a videotaped post-mortem. Following the post-mortem, Mukhtar Ansari’s son Umar Ansari will receive his remains.
Mukhtar Ansari passed away on Thursday at a hospital in Banda, Uttar Pradesh, from cardiac arrest.
Mukhtar Ansari complained of vomiting, and a medical bulletin stated that he was sent to the Rani Durgavati Medical College in the city from the district jail in “an unconscious state.” It said that despite the care of a group of nine doctors, he passed away from cardiac arrest.
Mukhtar Ansari was admitted to the hospital on Tuesday for almost 14 hours after he reported having stomach pains. The gangster-turned-politician’s family claims the 63-year-old was “slow-poisoned” by something mixed into the meals he was fed while incarcerated in Banda.
Mukhtar Ansari’s death: Here are latest updates
- Following Mukhtar Ansari’s death, security has been tightened across Uttar Pradesh.
- Prohibitory orders under Section 144 of the Criminal Procedure Code (CrPC), which bars large gatherings, have been imposed across the state and additional security personnel have been deployed in the Banda, Mau, Ghazipur and Varanasi districts, according to PTI.
- UP DGP Prashant Kumar said the social media cell of the Uttar Pradesh Police has also been activated to keep a close watch on unlawful elements online.
- However, despite the prohibitory orders, a large number of people were seen outside Mukhtar Ansari’s residence in Ghazipur on Friday morning.
- Preparations for the funeral of gangster-turned-politician Mukhtar Ansari are underway at the Kali Bagh Graveyard in Ghazipur.
- Mukhtar Ansari’s son, Abbas Ansari, who is locked in Kasganj jail, has been informed about his father’s death. Superintendent of the jail, Vijay Vikram Singh informed him about it, ANI reported
- Umar Ansari, Mukhtar Ansari’s another son, claimed that his father was given poison in the food and said they would move the court. “We have full faith in it,” he added.
Who was Mukhtar Ansari?
Mukhtar Ansari, 63, was a five-time MLA from Mau Sadar – from 1996 to 2022 – twice as a Bahujan Samaj Party candidate, twice as an Independent and once as a Quami Ekta Dal nominee.
He had been behind bars in Uttar Pradesh and Punjab since 2005. He had more than 60 criminal cases pending against him.
Mukhtar Ansari was sentenced in eight cases since September 2022 by different courts in Uttar Pradesh and was lodged in the Banda jail. His name was on the list of 66 gangsters issued by Uttar Pradesh Police last year.
In 2022, Mukhtar Ansari passed on the baton to his elder son Abbas Ansari, who won from the same assembly seat as a candidate of the Suheldev Bhartiya Samaj Party in 2022, which was then in an alliance with the Samajwadi Party.
With inputs from Hindustan times News!
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