New Delhi: The Supreme Court as we speak orderd switch of gangster-turned-politican Mukhtar Ansari to jail in Uttar Pradesh from Punjab inside two weeks, to face trials there.
A Bench of Justices Ashok Bhushan and R Subhash Reddy directed that Ansari ought to be handed to UP in a span of two weeks and must be lodged in Banda jail.
The Uttar Pradesh authorities had final month informed the Supreme Court that the Punjab authorities is “shamelessly protecting” BSP MLA Mukhtar Ansari, a cost denied by the previous.
‘Running Illegal Activities From Jail’
Solicitor General Tushar Mehta, for Uttar Pradesh, urging for Ansari’s switch, shad mentioned that he’s named in 30 FIRs and an accused in 14 trials.
“Ansari’s case is a classical story like in the films… He is in jail since 2005, but he is operating from the jail allegedly and running his illegal activities from there… One person mocking the entire judicial system… His continuance in Punjab is unconstitutional,” Mehta submitted.
BSP MLA Ansari has been lodged in a jail in Punjab’s Ropar since January 2019. Some say his clout in jap Uttar Pradesh, whereas many nonetheless imagine he holds the strings to a whole lot of infamous actions working behind bars. It was in early Nineties when Ansari ventured into property enterprise and contract work however in a while stepped into the world of crime.
In November 2005, he was linked to the homicide of BJP legislator Krishnanad Rai. In 2009, Ansari, who faces 48 FIRs together with 10 homicide circumstances, was once more named within the killing of Ajai Prakash Singh, a contractor, in Mau.
Gangster-Turned Politician
Mukhtar Ansari gained his first meeting election via a BSP ticket from the Mau seat within the yr 1996. However, he was wasn’t given a ticket in 2002, after which determined to contest as an Independent and gained the seat in 2002. He retained his seat as an Independent candidate within the yr 2007.
In January 2019, he was arrested for allegedly threatening a Mohali-based builder and demanding a ransom. Ansari was arrested in that case and shifted to Punjab’s Ropar jail from Banda, the place he was incarcerated in March 2017 in a separate case.
Afraid To Return To Yogi-Led UP Govt
In May 2020, the UP police went arduous towards Ansari and his gang members. Seventy-two arms licenses linked to him and his accomplices had been suspended, properties price Rs 66 crore seized, and an extortion racket that provided crores of rupees yearly to Ansari and his associates was busted, reported IANS.
Two days in the past former Congress MLA Ajay Rai had written to Uttar Pradesh Governor Anandiben Patel, claiming a menace to his life from Mukhtar Ansari and sought a safety cowl for himself. WATCH: Why Mukhtar Ansari is afraid to return to Uttar Pradesh? | ABP Special Full
Ajay Rai is the complainant and prime witness towards Mukhtar and different accused individuals in a case associated to his brother Avadhesh Rai’s homicide. Rai, irnonically had loved help of Mukhtar’s Qaumi Ekta Dal in 2014 Lok Sabha elections.
Earlier, BJP MLA and slain Krishnanand Rai’s widow, Alka Rai, had written letters to Congress normal secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra alleging that the Congress-led Punjab authorities was shielding Mukhtar in Ropar Jail.
Cited Medical Reasons To Stay In Punjab Jail
It is being mentioned that Mukhtar Ansari and CM Captain Amarinder Singh’s son are shut buddies. They had been launched to one another by the identical builder and utilizing this tactic Ansari is being made to remain in a Punjab jail.
Reports say Mukhtar Ansari was perturbed with the way by which UP gangster Vikas Dubey was encountered. He has been citing medical causes due to which Punjab jail administration was not agreeing to shift him and had suggested mattress relaxation.
Some say Mukhtar Ansari is afraid to return to UP as he fears being eradicated by the Yogi Adityanath authorities and feels secure being lodged in Congress-ruled state of Punjab.
” My views about UP govt won’t change even if they get me back to Banda jail. I never requested to be lodged in Ghazipur jail Like a football I have been transferred to various jails in UP. I am always confined within 4 walls,”he had informed ABP in 2017.
