Allahabad HC To Decide Ghazipur SP Candidate Afzal Ansaris Political Fate Today

New Delhi: The political destiny of Afzal Ansari, who’s the brother of the late gangster-turned-politician, Mukhtar Ansari, can be selected Thursday by the Allahabad High Court. The Samajwadi Party (SP) candidate from Uttar Pradesh’s Ghazipur seat is going through a trial within the demise of Krishna Nand Rai, the then BJP MLA from Mohammadabad. The HC will declare the decision at this time. If Ansari will get greater than two years of imprisonment, his candidature from the Ghazipur seat can be cancelled till he will get a keep order from the upper courts. 

According to present legal guidelines, people convicted and sentenced to a jail time period of two years, or extra are robotically disqualified from contesting elections for six years following their launch. Earlier, the MP-MLA courtroom had imposed the four-year sentence on Afzal and now he’s contesting this resolution within the HC. 

The Gangster Case Against Afzal 

In a gunned-down homicide on November 29, 2005, in UP’s Basniya, seven people, together with the then BJP MLA Krishna Nand Rai, who had beforehand defeated Afzal within the 2002 elections, have been killed.  

Following the bloodbath, the Ansari brothers with others have been implicated within the conspiracy. Although acquitted within the case, Afzal and Mukhtar confronted authorized ramifications when the police filed a gangster case in opposition to them in 2007, stemming from the identical incident.  

The resolution within the matter got here on April 29, 2023, when the MP-MLA courtroom delivered its verdict. The courtroom sentenced Afzal to 4 years and Mukhtar to 10 years in jail, adopted by termination from parliamentary membership. 

SC Restores Parliamentary Membership 

On December 14, 2023, the Supreme Court suspended Afzal’s sentence indefinitely and restored his membership. 

Afzal, who was launched on bail on the orders of the High Court, filed an software within the Supreme Court and argued that since he had been acquitted within the MLA homicide case, the decrease courtroom’s resolution underneath the gangster was unacceptable.