SAD demands probe into ambulance use by Mukhtar Ansari
The Shiromani Akali Dal on Monday sought a probe into the use of a non-public ambulance by Punjab police for ferrying gangster-turned-politician Mukhtar Ansari from jail to a court docket final week.
“It has also come to light that the Punjab Police allowed Ansari to commander a private ambulance to ferry him to a Mohali court from the Rupnagar jail in violation of all norms. This ambulance has now been found abandoned near Rupnagar”, Shiromani Akai Dal (SAD) chief Daljit Singh Cheema stated.
He claimed all this has lent credence to the assertions of the Uttar Pradesh police that the Punjab authorities was “in cahoots” with Ansari and that there have been “orders from the very top to facilitate him in every manner possible.”
“There cannot be any other answer as to why the Punjab Police allowed Ansari the use of a private ambulance which had been registered on the basis of fake documents. This could be part of a bigger conspiracy which needs to the unearthed by a free and fair probe by a central agency,” Cheema stated in a press release right here.
The ambulance, which was used to ferry Ansari to a Mohali court docket was discovered deserted exterior a roadside eatery at Chandigarh-Nangal freeway in Punjab’s Rupnagar district on Saturday.
The BSP MLA from Mau, who is needed in Uttar Pradesh for numerous circumstances, was taken within the ambulance from Rupnagar jail to a Mohali court docket in reference to an alleged 2019 extortion matter on March 31.
A case was registered in Uttar Pradesh’s Barabanki after the paperwork of the ambulance have been discovered to be faux and one particular person was arrested on Monday.
The opposition Shiromani Akali Dal had earlier accused the Punjab authorities of giving “political shelter” to Ansari by preserving him in Rupnagar jail as a “state guest” on “trumped-up fees”.
The Supreme Court had lately directed the Punjab authorities at hand over the custody of Ansari to the Uttar Pradesh Police inside two weeks after which a UP police crew left for Punjab on Monday.
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