SC orders switch of Mukhtar Ansari from Punjab prison to UP
Permitting a petition by means of Uttar Pradesh executive, the Excellent Court docket on Friday ordered the switch of custody of gangster-turned-MLA Mukhtar Ansari from Punjab’s Ropar prison to Banda prison in Uttar Pradesh inside of two weeks. Punjab executive had sternly hostile the UP plea and sought its dismissal.
The apex courtroom was once listening to two switch petitions –– one filed by means of the UP executive searching for switch of Ansari, a BSP MLA from Mau meeting constituency, from Punjab to UP and every other by means of the accused himself, who sought a switch of instances in opposition to him to Delhi. The switch plea by means of Ansari was once pushed aside, reported Bar & Bench..
Ansari was once booked for extortion (Segment 386 of Indian Penal Code) and legal intimidation (Segment 506 of the IPC) at the grievance of the Leader Govt Officer (CEO) of Native land Team engaged in actual property industry in Punjab and Delhi Nationwide Capital Area. In his grievance to the Mohali SSP, the CEO mentioned that on January 9, 2019 night time he spoke back a choice from an individual who offered himself as “some Ansari from UP” and requested him to pay up Rs 10 crore if he sought after to make sure the security of his circle of relatives. The complainant stated he had recorded the decision.
The police lodged an FIR through which Ansari was once named because the accused together with his deal with as Banda, Uttar Pradesh. The Punjab Police introduced Ansari on manufacturing warrant from a prison in Uttar Pradesh a couple of fortnight after the registration of this example. He has been lodged within the Ropar prison since then.
In October final 12 months, BJP MLA Alka Rai, spouse of former BJP MLA Krishnanand Rai who was once shot useless in Ghazipur in 2005, had written to Congress normal secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, accusing the Congress executive in Punjab of serving to jailed Ansari evade courtroom appearances in UP. Ansari was once named as a key conspirator in Krishnanand’s homicide case. A unique courtroom in Delhi acquitted him IN 2019.
