Ropar: A cavalcade arrives ar Ropar Jail to take custody of gangster-turned politician Mukhtar Ansari as a part of preparations for his shifting from Punjab to Uttar Pradesh jail, in Ropar, Tuesday, April 6, 2021.
After spending over two years in a Punjab jail, gangster-turned-politician Mukhtar Ansari was brought back to Banda jail early Wednesday morning. He was ferried in an ambulance guarded by a robust posse of gun-toting safety personnel all through his 900-km journey from Rupnagar to this Uttar Pradesh city within the Bundelkhand area. Acting on a Supreme Court order, the Uttar Pradesh Police took custody of the 57-year-old BSP MLA at Rupnagar jail on Tuesday to convey him back to Banda jail.Â
It took round two hours to full the formalities earlier than he was handed over to the UP Police after a medical check-up.
Once the convoy entered the state on Tuesday night, the fleet of safety automobiles of the Uttar Pradesh Police, which included an ambulance outfitted with all life-saving gear to meet any exigency en route to Banda, a journey that takes round 14 hours from Ropar, and an anti-riot police car ‘Vajra’ whizzed previous the newly-laid expressways.
Before the convoy entered Banda jail at 4.30 am, it slowed down close to Kanpur Dehat as some stray animals blocked the street together with a patch of thick forest.
While heavy safety association was made by the Punjab Police exterior Rupnagar jail, the Banda jail space seemed like a cantonment zone with policemen preserving a hawk-eyed vigil throughout.
The police convoy entered Uttar Pradesh by means of the Eastern Peripheral Expressway in Baghpat round 6.00 pm, Allahabad zone Additional Director General of Police Prem Prakash mentioned.
The Uttar Pradesh group had reached Rupnagar police traces at 4.30 am on Tuesday and left for the jail round midday for the switch.
The convoy left the jail premises at 2:08 pm taking a aspect gate, dodging media individuals ready exterior the primary gate. As the convoy took the Ambala street, some media automobiles gave a chase however quickly gave up.
The five-time MLA will cool his heels in barrack quantity 15 of the Banda district jail, the place he was lodged prior to now earlier than being shifted to Punjab. The further police power has been deployed on the jail on the request of jail authorities.
He might be guarded by three safety personnel round the clock contained in the barrack.Â
“Security personnel have been posted inside as well as outside the jail premises,” Banda jailor Pramod Tiwari mentioned.
“In barrack number 15, where Ansari will be kept, arrangements for light, drinking water and cleanliness have been beefed up,” he mentioned.
Tiwari mentioned entry to the barrack has now been denied to different jail inmates.
The primary jail advanced gate, which usually stays open, will now be stored closed. Only these jail employees reporting for obligation might be allowed in after correct screening, he added.
High towers have been put up exterior the jail and additional police pickets have additionally been arrange to preserve a watch on each customer.
Meanwhile, the principal of Government Medical College, Banda, Dr Mukesh Kumar Yadav mentioned a panel of 4 docs has been constituted on the apex courtroom’s instructions to monitor Ansari’s well being.
Ansari was lodged in Rupnagar jail in January 2019 in reference to an extortion case.
The legislator from Mau in japanese Uttar Pradesh is dealing with 52 circumstances within the state and elsewhere, and 15 of them are within the trial stage.
The BJP-run Uttar Pradesh authorities had accused the Congress authorities in Punjab of protecting Ansari for a number of months by not letting the state take custody.
Punjab’s dwelling division had requested the Uttar Pradesh authorities to take Ansari’s custody by April 8, following the March 26 Supreme Court order that had set a two-week deadline.
The apex courtroom had famous that Ansari was allegedly concerned in circumstances of homicide, try to homicide, dishonest and conspiracy, other than offences underneath the Gangsters Act.
It mentioned his custody was being denied to the Uttar Pradesh Police on trivial grounds underneath the guise of medical points.
The SC additionally mentioned a convict or an undertrial who disobeys the regulation of the land can’t oppose his switch from one jail to one other and the courts can’t be helpless bystanders when the rule of regulation is being challenged with impunity.Â
As Uttar Pradesh takes cost of the high-profile undertrial, his spouse Afshan Ansari moved the Supreme Court in search of instructions to the state authorities to guarantee his security, together with from a police encounter.Â
(With PTI inputs)
