UP courtroom sentences Ansari brothers in Gangsters Act case, Afzaal stands to lose MP standing

Express News Service

LUCKNOW: The Ghazipur MP/MLA courtroom on Saturday convicted Afzaal Ansari and his youthful brother Mukhtar Ansari in two separate circumstances.

The courtroom handed out 10-year imprisonment and a pleasant of Rs 5 lakh to Mukhtar. Afzaal was sentenced to 4 years in jail and imposed a pleasant of Rs 1 lakh.

According to a senior police officer, a case beneath the Gangsters Act was registered in direction of Mukhtar after the sensational killing of BJP MLA Krishnanand Rai in 2005. An an identical case was moreover registered in direction of Afzaal for his alleged involvement throughout the BJP MLA’s murder. Both circumstances have been registered throughout the Mohammadabad police station of Ghazipur district.

Afzaal Ansari, presently the BSP MP representing the Ghazipur constituency, stands to lose his lower dwelling membership following his conviction and sentencing by the courtroom beneath the provisions of the Representation of People’s Act.

According to a Supreme Court order of 2013, the membership of an MP/MLA is annulled if the actual individual is convicted and sentenced to 2 years or further.

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Mukhtar, a five-time MLA, is already lodged in Banda jail. He has allegedly over 60 felony circumstances in direction of him.

During the listening to on Saturday, Mukhtar Ansari appeared sooner than the courtroom via video conference. Afzaal was present particularly individual, talked about authorities counsel, Ghazipur, Neeraj Srivastava. 

Immediately after the pronouncement of the choice, Afzaal was taken into custody and was despatched to Ghazipur jail in compliance with the courtroom order. However, his authorized professionals talked about that they’d file an enchantment throughout the elevated courtroom to drawback the MP/MLA courtroom order.

This is the first case throughout which Afzaal Ansari has been convicted. He has seven felony circumstances registered in direction of him.  However, it was Mukhtar Ansari’s fourth conviction in a number of circumstances since September 2022. 

On September 21, remaining 12 months, the Allahabad High Court sentenced Mukhtar Ansari to seven years imprisonment in a 2003 case of assaulting a jailer in Lucknow. A day later, the High Court, in a single different case relationship once more to 1999, sentenced him to five years imprisonment.

On December 15, remaining 12 months, Ghazipur MP/MLA courtroom convicted Mukhtar Ansari beneath Uttar Pradesh Gangster Act and sentenced him to 10 years in jail alongside alongside along with his accomplice Bheem Singh in reference to 1 different case beneath Gangster Act relationship once more to 1999.

Mukhtar’s partner Afshan, is absconding and carries a reward of Rs 50,000. She faces seven circumstances. Their elder son and SBSP MLA Abbas Ansari has eight circumstances whereas one different son Umar Ansari has 5 circumstances registered in direction of him.

Krishnanad Rai, the then BJP MLA from Mohammadabad, was gunned down in Ghazipur in 2005 allegedly by Mukhtar Ansari and his accomplices who had fired “over 400 bullets” on the lawmaker in an ambush on his convoy.

While reacting to the conviction of Ansari brothers, Alka Rai, widow of Krishnanand Rai talked about, “I believe in the judiciary. Rule of Goondas, Mafias has ended (in the state).”

Welcoming the judgement, Piyush Rai, son of Krishnanand Rai, talked about that conviction of Mukhtar reaffirmed his faith throughout the Indian judicial system. He talked about they’ve been disillusioned by the acquittal of Mukhtar Ansari in his father’s murder case of 2005 by CBI courtroom nevertheless now the conviction had reaffirmed the faith throughout the judiciary. 

The Krishnanand Rai murder case is in Delhi High Court after Ansari was acquitted by a CBI courtroom in Delhi as key witnesses turned each hostile or have been eradicated by the gangster.

LUCKNOW: The Ghazipur MP/MLA courtroom on Saturday convicted Afzaal Ansari and his youthful brother Mukhtar Ansari in two separate circumstances.

The courtroom handed out 10-year imprisonment and a pleasant of Rs 5 lakh to Mukhtar. Afzaal was sentenced to 4 years in jail and imposed a pleasant of Rs 1 lakh.

According to a senior police officer, a case beneath the Gangsters Act was registered in direction of Mukhtar after the sensational killing of BJP MLA Krishnanand Rai in 2005. An an identical case was moreover registered in direction of Afzaal for his alleged involvement throughout the BJP MLA’s murder. Both circumstances have been registered throughout the Mohammadabad police station of Ghazipur district.googletag.cmd.push(function() googletag.present(‘div-gpt-ad-8052921-2’); );

Afzaal Ansari, presently the BSP MP representing the Ghazipur constituency, stands to lose his lower dwelling membership following his conviction and sentencing by the courtroom beneath the provisions of the Representation of People’s Act.

According to a Supreme Court order of 2013, the membership of an MP/MLA is annulled if the actual individual is convicted and sentenced to 2 years or further.

ALSO READ | Mukhtar Ansari: Crime lord whose grandfathers have been a Congress President and a battle hero

Mukhtar, a five-time MLA, is already lodged in Banda jail. He has allegedly over 60 felony circumstances in direction of him.

During the listening to on Saturday, Mukhtar Ansari appeared sooner than the courtroom via video conference. Afzaal was present particularly individual, talked about authorities counsel, Ghazipur, Neeraj Srivastava. 

Immediately after the pronouncement of the choice, Afzaal was taken into custody and was despatched to Ghazipur jail in compliance with the courtroom order. However, his authorized professionals talked about that they’d file an enchantment throughout the elevated courtroom to drawback the MP/MLA courtroom order.

This is the first case throughout which Afzaal Ansari has been convicted. He has seven felony circumstances registered in direction of him.  However, it was Mukhtar Ansari’s fourth conviction in a number of circumstances since September 2022. 

On September 21, remaining 12 months, the Allahabad High Court sentenced Mukhtar Ansari to seven years imprisonment in a 2003 case of assaulting a jailer in Lucknow. A day later, the High Court, in a single different case relationship once more to 1999, sentenced him to five years imprisonment.

On December 15, remaining 12 months, Ghazipur MP/MLA courtroom convicted Mukhtar Ansari beneath Uttar Pradesh Gangster Act and sentenced him to 10 years in jail alongside alongside along with his accomplice Bheem Singh in reference to 1 different case beneath Gangster Act relationship once more to 1999.

Mukhtar’s partner Afshan, is absconding and carries a reward of Rs 50,000. She faces seven circumstances. Their elder son and SBSP MLA Abbas Ansari has eight circumstances whereas one different son Umar Ansari has 5 circumstances registered in direction of him.

Krishnanad Rai, the then BJP MLA from Mohammadabad, was gunned down in Ghazipur in 2005 allegedly by Mukhtar Ansari and his accomplices who had fired “over 400 bullets” on the lawmaker in an ambush on his convoy.

While reacting to the conviction of Ansari brothers, Alka Rai, widow of Krishnanand Rai talked about, “I believe in the judiciary. Rule of Goondas, Mafias has ended (in the state).”

Welcoming the judgement, Piyush Rai, son of Krishnanand Rai, talked about that conviction of Mukhtar reaffirmed his faith throughout the Indian judicial system. He talked about they’ve been disillusioned by the acquittal of Mukhtar Ansari in his father’s murder case of 2005 by CBI courtroom nevertheless now the conviction had reaffirmed the faith throughout the judiciary. 

The Krishnanand Rai murder case is in Delhi High Court after Ansari was acquitted by a CBI courtroom in Delhi as key witnesses turned each hostile or have been eradicated by the gangster.