PRAYAGRAJ: The Allahabad High Court has denied bail to a member of the Mukhtar Ansari gang in a 2010 homicide case in Mau district during which the jailed gangster-turned-politician can also be an accused. The court docket stated Ansari’s gang is the “most dreaded criminal gang of India” and it’s potential that the accused, Ramu Mallah, might affect witnesses and their deposition within the case if allowed to return out of jail.
Mallah, who’s being tried in a number of different circumstances, had moved the bail utility beneath Section 439 of the CrPC, which empowers the court docket to grant bail and likewise impose situations on the accused if obligatory.
Opposing the bail utility, the federal government counsel Ratnendu Kumar Singh stated the accused might affect witnesses and safe acquittal within the current case. To this, the court docket agreed.
“Merely because the accused has been acquitted because the witnesses have turned hostile in some (different) circumstances, his felony historical past doesn’t get evaporated,? Justice Dinesh Kumar Singh noticed in his order on March 1.
“The accused applicant is a dreaded criminal and member of the most dreaded criminal gang of India i.E. Gang of Mukhtar Ansari. The accused applicant is facing several criminal cases of heinous offences,” it stated.
The court docket stated if similar to felony is allowed to return out of jail, he will surely be ready to affect the witnesses and free and truthful deposition of the witnesses could be unattainable.
“Therefore, I discover no substance within the submission of the realized counsel for the accused applicant that because the accused applicant has secured acquittal (in another circumstances), he must be enlarged on bail. Thus, the current utility is hereby rejected,? Justice Singh added.
The court docket additionally urged the State to offer safety and help to witnesses for a free and honest trial.
“Free and fair trial and preservation of rule of law, is not possible, if the State does not give witnesses protection and support for their free, frank and fearless deposition,” it stated.
The court docket discovered it unusual {that a} co-ordinate bench of the excessive court docket had given Mallah bail in 2013 on this case.
Gangster Mukhtar Ansari, who was an MLA from Mau, is presently lodged in Banda jail. He was dropped at Banda jail from a Punjab jail in April 2021 after a Supreme Court order. His son Abbas Ansari now represents the constituency within the UP Assembly.
