SC orders transfer of Mukhtar Ansari from Punjab jail to UP
Allowing a request from the Uttar Pradesh government, the Supreme Court on Friday ordered the transfer of custody of gangster-turned-MLA Mukhtar Ansari from Punjab’s Ropar jail to Banda Jail in Uttar Pradesh within two weeks. The Punjab government had strongly opposed UP’s request and requested its dismissal.
The high court was hearing two transfer petitions: one submitted by the UP government seeking the transfer of Ansari, a BSP MLA from the Mau assembly constituency, from Punjab to the UP, and another from the defendant himself, who requested transferring the cases against him to Delhi. . Ansari’s transfer request was dismissed, Bar & Bench reported.
Ansari was charged with extortion (Section 386 of the Indian Penal Code) and criminal intimidation (Section 506 of the IPC) in the complaint of the Executive Director (CEO) of Homeland Group that is engaged in the real estate business in Punjab and the Region from the National Capital of Delhi. In his complaint to the Mohali SSP, the executive director stated that on the evening of January 9, 2019, he responded to a call from a person who introduced himself as “an Ansari from UP” and asked him to pay Rs 10 million if he wanted. make sure your family’s safe. The complainant said he had recorded the call.
The police filed an FIR naming Ansari as the defendant with his address as Banda, Uttar Pradesh. The Punjab police removed Ansari with a production warrant from jail in Uttar Pradesh approximately 15 days after the registration of this case. Since then he has been housed in the Ropar prison.
In October last year, BJP MLA Alka Rai, wife of former BJP MLA Krishnanand Rai, who was shot and killed in Ghazipur in 2005, had written to the Secretary-General of Congress, Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, accusing the congressional government in Punjab of helping the imprisoned Ansari evade court appearances in UP. Ansari was named as a key conspirator in the Krishnanand murder case. A special court in Delhi acquitted him in 2019.
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