Gangster-turned-politician, Mukhtar Ansari dies due to cardiac arrest; section 144 imposed across Uttar Pradesh
Mukhtar Ansari died due to cardiac arrest on Thursday after he was admitted to a hospital in Uttar Pradesh's Banda district because of his health condition. He was rushed to the hospital in an unconscious state after he complained of vomiting. Also Read: UP news: Jailed Mukhtar Ansari admitted to hospital after ‘abdominal pain’ The five-time MLA from eastern UP's Mau was involved in the property business and was also involved in 52 criminal cases in UP and at many other places.
He contested elections twice as Bahujan Samajwadi Party (BSP) candidate. He last contested the assembly polls in 2017. Soon after his death, prohibitory orders under CrPC Section 144 have been imposed across Uttar Pradesh, said Police on Thursday.
Mukhtar Ansari was involved in the property business and contract work, and he is said to have begun expanding his network in the world of crime in the 1990s across eastern Uttar Pradesh, also known as Purvanchal. Also Read: Mukhtar Ansari gets over 5 years rigorous imprisonment in 26-year-old case. Details here The history-sheeter in Mohammadabad police station of Ghazipur district, Ansari was acquitted by a Delhi court in the murder case of BJP MLA Krishna Nand Rai in 2005.
Along with him, six others including brother and BSP MP Afzal Ansari, were also acquitted in the case. He was sentenced to life imprisonment in a three-decade-old fake arms licence case by a special MP-MLA court on March 13. In 2017, a local court of Ghazipur, UP acquitted him in a case related to the 2009 murder of Ajai Prakash Singh, a contractor, in Mau.
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