At 30, Mukhtar Ansari showed no fear of law: Delhi Police official who arrested him in 1993
Muktar Ansari, who died after suffering cardiac arrest on Thursday, revealed everything «fearlessly» and «confidently» about his crime when he was arrested by a team of Delhi Police Crime Branch in connection with a highly sensational case in 1993. The case pertained to ransom for kidnapping a businessman from Lutyens Delhi.
«He was around 30-years-old then, full of confidence and showing no fear of law. That was a highly sensational case in those days,» recalled Ashok Chand, a retired Delhi Police officer, who led the team and ensured the safe rescue of the businessman from Panchkula at the Punjab-Haryana border, 250 kilometers away from Delhi.
Ansari and his two associates had demanded a ransom of Rs 1 crore from the family members of the west Delhi-based businessman Ved Prakash Goel. The calls were made from a local phone booth of Panchkula, where they had hid Goel in a rented accommodation.
Ansari, who was elected an MLA five times, died of cardiac arrest in a hospital in Uttar Pradesh's Banda on Thursday. He was serving his jail term in a case of gangster act of Uttar Pradesh.
Chand, who interrogated Ansari at length in Delhi, said he and his team never thought that one day, he would become one of the the «biggest bahubali dons» in north India.
Ansari was facing 61 cases, including land grabbing, extortion, abduction, contract killings, murders, attempt to murder and arms acts.
He had been facing two more cases — including POTA and MCOCA — lodged by the Delhi Police Special Cell in 2009.
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