This is an archive article published on August 19, 2023

Land grab case: Ghazipur court rejects Abbas Ansari’s bail plea

The land was declared barren again but Abbas Ansari and his mother Afsa got it registered in their names in a fraudulent manner, the lawyer added. The case was registered against 12 people.

Abbas Ansari, Suheldev Bharatiya Samaj Party MLA and son of gangster-turned-politician Mukhtar Ansari, being produced to a court after his arrest by Enforcement Directorate in a money laundering case, in Prayagraj, in 2022. (File Photo: PTI)

By: PTI

1 min readGhazipur (up)Aug 19, 2023 02:30 PM IST First published on: Aug 19, 2023 at 02:30 PM IST

A court here has rejected the bail plea of Suheldev Bharatiya Samaj Party MLA Abbas Ansari in a case of getting a plot of land registered in his name and that of his mother in a fraudulent manner.

Special judge of the MP-MLA court, Arvind Mishra, on Friday rejected the bail plea of the MLA from Mau who is the son of jailed gangster-turned-politician Mukhtar Ansari, the prosecution lawyer said.

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Narrating the details of the case, the lawyer said lekhpal Satyapal had on August 19, 2020, lodged a complaint at the Kotwali police station alleging that the deed of registration of a barren plot of land in Mohammad Patti under the names of Ravindra Sharma, Shrikant Upadhyay and Nandlal was cancelled by the then district magistrate.