Mafia Mukhtar Ansari: Mukhtar Ansari sentenced to five years, was imprisoned for 7 years two days ago

After the Yogi Adityanath government on former Mafia MLA Mukhtar Ansari lodged in Banda Jail, now the court has also tightened the noose. After being sentenced to seven years in jail for threatening the jailer, Mukhtar has now been sentenced to five years imprisonment by the Lucknow Bench of the Allahabad High Court in the 23-year-old Gangster Act case. Along with this a fine of fifty thousand rupees has also been imposed.

The Lucknow Bench of the Allahabad High Court has also convicted Mafia Mukhtar Ansari, who is in jail, in a 23-year-old case under the Gangster Act. The court on Friday sentenced him to five years' imprisonment along with a fine of fifty thousand rupees.

A single bench of Justice Dinesh Kumar Singh of Lucknow division has passed this decision on the appeal of the state government. According to public prosecutor Rao Narendra Singh, the state government had challenged the order of the trial court acquitting Mukhtar in this gangster case. An FIR has been registered in this case in the year 1999 in Hazratganj Kotwali of Lucknow.

Earlier on Wednesday, the Lucknow Bench of the Allahabad High Court sentenced Mukhtar Ansari to seven years' imprisonment in a 2003 case. The case was related to the threat of death by showing a pistol to the jailer of Lucknow Jail. In this case against Bahubali Mukhtar Ansari, Jailor SK Awasthi fought alone and got punishment. There were many witnesses in this fight who later turned hostile. In 2003, some people had come to meet the then MLA Mukhtar Ansari, who was lodged in Lucknow jail. When the then jailer SK Awasthi, who had come to meet armed with weapons, should be searched, Mukhtar Ansari, who was in the jail's Quarantine Jail, objected to it. After this the matter increased so much that Mukhtar Ansari took out the pistol of the visitor and threatened him. An FIR was lodged on behalf of Jailor SK Awasthi at Alambagh police station in Lucknow.