UP Police team on way to bring back Mukhtar Ansari
A particular police team left for Punjab on Monday to take custody of mafia don and Bahujan Samaj Party MLA Mukhtar Ansari and bring him back from the Ropar jail to Uttar Pradesh’s Banda jail. Inspector General Chitrakoot Okay. Satyanarayana mentioned, “After reaching Ropar in Punjab, the team will complete the paper formalities to take his custody and bring him back. Adequate security force is being sent to bring him back to UP safely.”
A medical check-up of Mukhtar Ansari may additionally be completed in Punjab earlier than bringing him back to the Banda Jail.
On reaching the Banda jail, he’ll go for necessary RT-PCR check and will probably be quarantined in a secluded high-security cell within the Banda jail.
The IG mentioned that safety within the jail has been beefed up and extra drive could be deployed on the foremost gate of the jail and surrounding areas.
High alert has been sounded in Banda and adjoining districts.
“A watch will be kept on all hotels and guest houses to keep an eye on visitors,” he added.
On March 26, the Supreme Court had ordered the Punjab authorities to hand over Mukhtar Ansari back to Uttar Pradesh Police inside two weeks, ignoring pleas of the Punjab authorities.
The Department of Home and Justice, Punjab authorities had lastly written to the Additional Chief Secretary Home, Avanish Awasthi, on April 3 to make appropriate preparations for handing over Mukhtar Ansari to Uttar Pradesh Police earlier than April 8.
Meanwhile, a Special Investigation Team (SIT), shaped to examine mafia don’s personal bulletproof luxurious ambulance case, arrested his henchman Shoaib a.okay.a Bobby from Barabanki.
Shoaib’s title had figured within the homicide of Lucknow Jail Superintendent R.Okay. Tiwari in 1999. He was, nonetheless, let off by the court docket for need of proof.
The SIT suspects that Shoaib might need helped the mafia don to get the ambulance registered in Barabanki. The SIT can be holding a watch on his different henchmen who used to frequent the Ropar Jail to meet Ansari.
On the opposite hand, Barabanki police reached Mau and grilled BJP chief and proprietor of Shyam Sanjeevani Hospital Dr. Alka Rai for 2 hours. Mafia don’s ambulance is registered within the title of her hospital.
Meanwhile, the ambulance used to ferry gangster-turned-politician Mukhtar Ansari to a Mohali court docket, was discovered deserted outdoors a roadside eatery on the Chandigarh-Nangal freeway in Punjab’s Rupnagar district.
The police mentioned they’ve taken the automobile of their custody.
Rupnagar Deputy Superintendent of Police T.S. Gill instructed reporters that, “We have taken the ambulance in our custody.”
The police mentioned they received info that the ambulance bearing a registration variety of Uttar Pradesh was mendacity deserted on the roadside.
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