Mukhtar Ansari found guilty in 2010 Gangsters Act case, sixth conviction in 1 year

Ansari, a former five-time MLA who is lodged in the Banda district jail, was convicted under the Uttar Pradesh Gangsters and Anti-Social Activities (Prevention) Act in the 2010 FIR that was registered at the Karanda police station in connection with two incidents.

This is the sixth case in which the former legislator has been convicted in the past one year. Ansari has a total of 61 cases against him, including that of murder and attempt to murder.

Ghazipur Joint Director (Prosecution) Parmanand Tiwari on Thursday said, “The case was lodged in connection with two incidents – one of the 2009 murder of one Kapil Dev Singh, and the other for an attempt to murder on one Meer Hasan the same year. The trial in the case started in September 2012.”

He added, “The prosecution had a total of nine witnesses of which one is dead. The other eight were examined in the court.”

In June this year, a Varanasi court convicted Ansari and sentenced him to life imprisonment for the murder of Awadhesh Rai, 30, a businessman, outside his house in the city’s Maldahiya locality in 1991. Awadhesh was the elder brother of current Congress state president Ajay Rai.

On April 29 this year, Ansari was sentenced to four years imprisonment under the Gangsters and Anti-Social Activities (Prevention) Act along with his elder brother Afzal. Earlier, on September 21, 2022, the Allahabad High Court sentenced him to seven years in prison in a 2003 case of assault on a jailer. A day later, the High Court sentenced him to five years in jail in a 1999 case under the Gangsters Act. Then on December 15, a Ghazipur district court sentenced Mukhtar and his alleged associate Bheem Singh to 10-year imprisonment in a 1996 case under the Gangsters Act.