Uttar Pradesh: Mukhtar Ansari sentenced to 10-year jail term in Gangsters Act case

A Ghazipur court on Friday awarded 10 years imprisonment to jailed gangster-turned-politician Mukhtar Ansari in a 2009 Gangsters Act case. The court also imposed a fine of Rs 5 lakh on Ansari.

The former five-term MLA was accused of plotting a conspiracy to kill one Kapil Dev Singh, who was murdered in 2009. An MP/MLA court in Ghazipur on Thursday held Ansari guilty in a case of the Gangster Act registered by the Uttar Pradesh police in 2009. This is Ansari’s sixth conviction since September 2022.

In April 2023, the Ghazipur MP-MLA court convicted and sentenced him to 10 years in jail in connection with the cases of the kidnapping of Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) leader Nandkishore Rungta and the 2005 murder of BJP MLA Krishnanand Rai, respectively.

A Varanasi court also held Ansari guilty In June 2023 and sentenced him to life imprisonment for a 32-year-old murder case of Awadhesh Rai, who was shot dead outside the house of his brother and former MLA Ajai Rai.