Don-turned-politician Mukhtar Ansari appears before Punjab court in wheelchair
Gangster-turned-politician Mukhtar Ansari, who is needed in Uttar Pradesh for numerous instances, was on Wednesday produced before a Mohali court in reference to an alleged 2019 extortion matter. The court fastened April 12 as the following date in this case, a police official stated.
Amid tight safety preparations, Ansari was taken to court in a wheelchair. He was despatched again to Punjab’s Rupnagar jail in an ambulance after the looks.
The Supreme Court had not too long ago directed the Punjab authorities handy over the custody of Ansari to the Uttar Pradesh Police, saying it was being denied on trivial grounds underneath guise of medical points.
The apex court had additionally stated {that a} convict or an undertrial prisoner, who disobeys the legislation of the land, can not oppose his switch from one jail to a different and the courts are to not be a helpless bystander when the rule of legislation is being challenged with impunity.
The court had stated the custody of Ansari, an MLA from Mau constituency, be handed over to Uttar Pradesh inside two weeks in order to lodge him in Banda district jail in Uttar Pradesh.
The apex court had additionally famous that Ansari was allegedly concerned in numerous instances of try and homicide, homicide, dishonest and conspiracy aside from offences underneath the Gangsters Act, lodged in Uttar Pradesh and out of them, 10 instances are on the levels of trial.
The opposition Shiromani Akali Dal had accused the Punjab authorities of giving “political shelter” to Ansari by preserving him in the Rupnagar jail as a “state guest” on “trumped-up charges”.
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