Lucknow: Jailed gangster-turned-MLA Mukhtar Ansari’s key aide Meraj Ali has died after being shot down by a prisoner named Anshu Dixit in Uttar Pradesh’s Chitrakoot Jail on Friday.
Reportedly, the 2 inmates Merazuddin alias Meraj Ali and gangster Mukim Kala have been shot down within the ‘gang-war’.
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Jailed sharpshooter Anshu Dixit managed to shoot down Meraj Ali and Mukim Kala inside a high-security barrack of Chitrakoot District Jail in UP.
While Meraj Ali was referred to as the aide of Mukhtar Ali, Mukim Kala killed together with him was a history-sheeter of 65 instances who ran a legal community in West Uttar Pradesh. Mukim began his legal profession within the Mustafa Kagga gang notorious for robberies and contract killing in elements of Haryana, West UP and Uttarakhand.
According to information company PTI, an argument had damaged out between the jail inmates, and when a jail workers tried to cease them, Dikshit snatched his service revolver. He shot lifeless Ali and Kala and likewise took 5 inmates as hostages, threatening to kill them.
The district police chief and District Magistrate reached the location however he was unable to convey him beneath management. Dikshit was later shot down in police motion after refusing to give up.
A search operation has been launched whereby all barracks are being checked and alternatively, DIG Prison Prayagraj Range is about to conduct an investigation into the incident.
As for Mukhtar Ansari who was not too long ago introduced again to Uttar Pradesh, his slain key aides embody Meraj Ali and gangster Munna Bajrangi. Bajrangi was killed in a gang warfare in Baghpat Jail in July 2018.
Ansari, a five-time MLA from Uttar Pradesh’s Mau district, was lodged in Ropar jail for over two years in reference to an extortion case. He can also be accused of the homicide of former Uttar Pradesh MLA Krishna Nand Rai in 2005. After a Supreme Court order, Mukhtar was delivered to UP after being lodged in Punjab. He is presently housed at a jail within the Banda district.Â
