Decks cleared for Mukhtar Ansari’s transfer from Punjab to UP jail
A Mohali court docket has rejected a plea of gangster-turned-politician Mukhtar Ansari who sought instructions to jail authorities to represent a medical board for inspecting him. The court docket of Judicial Magistrate 1st Class (JMIC) Amit Bakshi mentioned the Supreme Court has already thought of Ansari’s plea relating to his medical situation.
“There is nothing on record which cab suggest that after the apex court order on March 26 there have been any fresh medical issues with the accused,” the Mohali court docket choose mentioned.
No separate order to represent a board for remedy of the accused is required to be handed, the choose wrote in his March 31 order.
Ansari, wished in Uttar Pradesh for a number of circumstances, was on Wednesday produced earlier than the Mohali court docket in reference to an alleged 2019 extortion matter. He was in a wheelchair when he was introduced to the court docket. Ansari, by his counsel Raj Sumer Singh, had moved a plea within the court docket for directing the jail authorities to get him medically examined due to “acute ailments and medical distress”.
The counsel had additionally claimed that the accused suffered “medical” emergency on March 29, 2020 and since then he has been struggling from “acute chest pain”.
Ansari had a earlier medical situation and had additionally suffered two main coronary heart assaults. It was feared that if he was denied correct medical help, he may succumb to his medical illnesses, it was additional submitted.
The counsel had additionally sought a reply from the Rupnagar jail superintendent earlier than deciding the appliance. The counsel additionally talked about within the plea whereas referring to the March 26 Supreme Court order that because the MLA from Mau had to journey to Uttar Pradesh, preserving in view his medical situation, he be handled by a acknowledged authorities medical hospital in Mohali by constituting a board.
The Mohali court docket choose in his order mentioned, “No reply on behalf of the jail superintendent would be required as the jail superintendent was duty bound as per law to provide appropriate medical facility to the accused as per his medical condition (if any), as per the jail manual and also to comply with the order dated March 26 of the apex court.”
The court docket additionally directed that as Ansari is in judicial custody within the current case, subsequently, the jail superintendent, on the time of transferring the custody of the accused to UP as per instructions of the apex court docket, will point out that he be produced by video conferencing on April 12 within the current case.
Ansari has been lodged in Rupnagar district jail in Punjab since January 2019 in reference to an alleged extortion case.
On March 26, the Supreme Court directed the Punjab authorities to hand over the custody of Ansari to the Uttar Pradesh Police, saying the custody was being denied on trivial grounds underneath the guise of medical points.
The apex court docket had additionally mentioned {that a} convict or an undertrial prisoner, who disobeys the legislation of the land, can’t oppose his transfer from one jail to one other and the courts shouldn’t be a helpless bystander when the rule of legislation is being challenged with impunity.
A bench of Justices Ashok Bhushan and R S Reddy had mentioned the custody of Ansari be handed over to Uttar Pradesh inside two weeks in order to lodge him in Banda District Jail in UP.
The apex court docket additionally famous that Ansari was allegedly concerned in a number of circumstances of try to homicide, homicide, dishonest and conspiracy aside from offences underneath the Gangsters Act, which have been lodged in Uttar Pradesh. Out of those circumstances, 10 are on the phases of trial.
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