UP court convicts Mukhtar Ansari, brother Afzal Ansari in 2005 MLA murder case
On Saturday the MP-MLA court in Ghazipur sentenced gangster-turned-politician Mukhtar Ansari to 10 years in jail for the kidnap and murder of BJP MLA Krishnanand Rai. The court also imposed a fine of Rs.5 lakh on Ansari.
Currently lodged in Banda Jail, Mukhtar Ansari was presented through video conferencing.
In 2005, seven people, including Krishnanand Rai, were murdered in Basaniya Chatti under the Muhammadabad police station. In 2007, a case was filed under the Gangsters Act against the Ansari brothers in connection with the kidnapping and murder of Rai.
Before the court hearing, the wife of late BJP MLA Krishnanand Rai, who was murdered in Ghazipur in 2005, said: “I believe in the judiciary. The rule of goons and mafias has ended in Uttar Pradesh.”
BSP MP and Mukhtar Ansari’s brother Afzal Ansari, a co-accused in the case, reached the court at 10.45 a.m.
A local advocate said: “Since morning, tight security was put in place outside the Ghazipur court. Traffic was stopped by barricading the road.”
Apart from the Rai murder case, there is also a case of kidnapping and murder of Nandkishore Rungta against Mukhtar Ansari.
[With Inputs from IANS]
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Only 10 years…..1000 years