Mukhtar Ansari case: Ghazipur’s MP MLA court docket on Saturday convicted jailed mafia Mukhtar Ansari in a gangster case and sentenced him to 10 years imprisonment and a fantastic of Rs 5 lakh.
On September 23, 2022 the Lucknow bench of the Allahabad High Court sentenced him to 5 years in a case registered in 1999 underneath the Gangster Act. The court docket had additionally imposed a fantastic of Rs 50,000 on Mukhtar in this 23-year-old case.
Security was heightened forward of the decision by an MP-MLA court docket in Uttar Pradesh’s Ghazipur in a kidnapping and homicide case towards gangster-turned-politician Mukhtar Ansari, his elder brother and BSP MP Afzal Ansari on Saturday. Earlier in January this yr, the police registered a homicide case towards Mukhtar Ansari in connection to the 2001 ‘Usri Chatti’ gang war incident.