Mukhtar Ansari tests positive for COVID-19
Gangster-turned-politician Mukhtar Ansari, lodged at Banda jail in Uttar Pradesh, has examined positive for the novel coronavirus. According to the main points, the samples of Ansari had been collected from the jail premises on Saturday, following which his antigen report has come out to be positive. Mukhtar Ansari’s RTPCR report result’s, nonetheless, but awaited. The gangster- turned-politician is at the moment affected by fever and is beneath statement by medical doctors.Â
Mukhtar Ansari was introduced again to Banda jail this month in an ambulance, a part of a convoy carrying gun-toting policemen, all through the 900-km journey from Rupnagar to this Uttar Pradesh city in the Bundelkhand area.
Hours later, his brother Afzal Ansari, who can be the BSP MP from Ghazipur, had accused the police of treating him in an “inhuman” method in the course of the journey, claiming he was not given meals or water.
“In the over 15-hour journey, he was not given water and food and was also denied medical aid. Due to this, he became unwell and reached Banda jail in a semi-conscious state,” he alleged.
Afzal Ansari, nonetheless, didn’t elaborate how he acquired to know in regards to the alleged remedy meted out to his brother.
But he didn’t substantiate the allegation and, in line with the UP authorities, a medical panel examined the 57-year-old after his arrival and located no fast well being considerations.
The Bahujan Samaj Party MLA from Mau faces trial in Uttar Pradesh in a number of circumstances, together with an try and homicide and homicide.
His switch from Punjab was ordered by the Supreme Court after the UP authorities approached it, in search of the politician’s custody from Punjab.
