Mukhtar Ansari introduced again to UP, Atiq Ahmad subsequent: UP minister Anand Swarup Shukla

An afternoon after gangster-turned-politician Mukhtar Ansari used to be introduced again to the state from a jail in Punjab, Uttar Pradesh minister Anand Swarup Shukla on Thursday mentioned jailed former parliamentarian and strongman Atiq Ahmad is subsequent.

5-time legislator and one-time MP Ahmad, now over 60, has greater than 90 felony instances, together with homicide, abduction, unlawful mining, extortion, intimidation and fraud, towards him. He’s lodged in a jail in Gujarat.

He used to be shifted there from Uttar Pradesh at the route of the Ideal Court docket in 2019.

“The Uttar Pradesh executive succeeded in bringing again Ansari in spite of a number of tips by way of the Punjab executive. Now we will be able to attempt to convey Atiq Ahmad again from Gujarat,” Shukla instructed journalists right here.

It’s the responsibility of the state executive to convey again such criminals to UP as they should be punished for his or her crimes, he mentioned.

“Already quite a lot of Ahmad’s lavish bungalows in Allahabad were bulldozed,” the Uttar Pradesh Minister of State for Parliamentary Affairs mentioned.

The Uttar Pradesh executive introduced Ansari again from the Ropad jail in Punjab to Banda prison on Wednesday morning.