BSP MLA Mukhtar Ansari’s custody passed over to UP Police
The Uttar Pradesh Police on Tuesday took custody of gangster-turned-politician Mukhtar Ansari from Ropar prison in Punjab. The Bahujan Samaj Party MLA from Mau will probably be lodged in UP’s Banda prison.
Punjab ADGP (prisons) P Okay Sinha stated a convoy of 40 UP police team of workers from Banda headed by way of a deputy superintendent of police reached Ropar prison at midday in six police cars and one Vajra car. An ambulance wearing a scientific group used to be additionally part of the convoy.
Ansari underwent a scientific check-up by way of the prison management and UP Police sooner than he used to be passed over.
Ansari is a history-sheeter in Mohammadabad police station of Ghazipur district with 38 circumstances of heinous crime lodged in opposition to him. The circumstances in opposition to the five-time MLA are lodged at quite a lot of police stations in several districts, together with Lucknow, Ghazipur and Mau. Ansari has been acquitted in these kind of circumstances.
He have been lodged in Ropar prison since January 2019 in reference to an alleged extortion case.
On March 26, whilst listening to a plea of the Uttar Pradesh executive, the Ideally suited Courtroom had directed the Punjab executive to surrender Ansari’s custody to UP.
On April 3, the Punjab House division wrote to their Uttar Pradesh opposite numbers to take over the custody of gangster on or sooner than April eight after making appropriate preparations for switch.
All over the listening to in best court docket, the UP executive had accused the Punjab executive of “shamelessly protective” Ansari by way of no longer delivering his custody to stand trial “in 10 heinous circumstances of homicide, extortion, dishonest, fraud” and “gangster acts” within the particular court docket for MPs and MLAs in Allahabad.
In the meantime, the Barabanki police have arrested an in depth affiliate of Ansari for allegedly the usage of faux paperwork to sign in the ambulance, which used to be lately used to ferry the gangster-turned-politician from a prison to a court docket in Mohali in Punjab.
