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Jailed gangster-turned-politician Mukhtar Ansari died of a cardiac arrest after he was hospitalised on Thursday evening. The five-time former MLA from Mau in Uttar Pradesh had been in jail in the state and in Punjab since 2005.
Mukhtar Ansari’s son Abbas Ansari, who is locked in Kasganj jail, was also informed about the demise of his father. Superintendent of the jail, Vijay Vikram Singh informed him about it.
A three-member team will conduct a magisterial investigation of the death of Gangster-turned-politician Mukhtar Ansari. A panel of 2 doctors will do the post-mortem which will be videographed. Mukhtar Ansari’s body will be handed over to his son Umar Ansari after the post-mortem.
Ansari last contested the assembly polls in 2017. Earlier on March 13, Ansari was sentenced to life imprisonment in a case related to the use of forged documents for obtaining an arms licence in 1990.
यूपी से पूर्व विधायक श्री मुख्तार अंसारी के इंतकाल का दुःखद समाचार मिला। परवरदिगार से प्रार्थना है कि दिवंगत आत्मा को शांति तथा शोकाकुल परिजनों को दुःख सहने की शक्ति प्रदान करें।
कुछ दिन पूर्व उन्होंने शिकायत की थी कि उन्हें जेल में जहर दिया गया है फिर भी गंभीरता से नहीं लिया…
— Tejashwi Yadav (@yadavtejashwi) March 28, 2024
इन्ना लिल्लाही वा इन्ना इलैही राजिऊन। अल्लाह से दुआ है के वो मुख़्तार अंसारी को मग़फ़िरत फ़रमाए, उनके ख़ानदान और उनके चाहने वालों को सब्र-ए-जमील अदा करें। @AfzalAnsariMP @yusufpore ग़ाज़ीपुर की अवाम ने अपने चहीते बेटे और भाई को को खो दिया। मुख़्तार साहब ने प्रशासन पर गंभीर आरोप… pic.twitter.com/zMbA0txKDK
— Asaduddin Owaisi (@asadowaisi) March 28, 2024
A medical bulletin issued stated that the 63-year-old, who was lodged in a jail in UP’s Banda, had been taken to the Rani Durgavati Medical College in the district by jail authorities in an unconscious state around 8.25 pm on Thursday after complaining of vomiting.
Local administration rushed a large team of police personnel outside the hospital shortly after Ansari was taken there and prohibitory orders under Section 144 of the Criminal Procedure Code (CrPC) have been imposed across Uttar Pradesh following his death.
Police Force teams have also been deployed in large numbers in Banda, Mau, Ghazipur and Varanasi districts.
“Mukhtar said that he was given a poisonous substance in his food in jail. This happened for the second time. He was given poison around 40 days ago as well. And, recently, on March 19 or March 22, he was again given this (poison) due to which his condition is bad,” Afzal Ansari had been quoted as saying by PTI.
Ansari had 61 criminal cases against him, of which 15 were on murder charges.
On the death of Gangster-turned-politician Mukhtar Ansari after suffering a cardiac arrest, Umar Ansari, son of Mukhtar Ansari says, “I was not told anything from the administration side, I came to know about it through the media… But now the whole nation knows everything… Two days ago I came to meet him, but I was not allowed… We said earlier also and even today we will say the same about the allegation of giving slow poison. On March 19, he was poisoned in the dinner. We will move to the judiciary, we have full faith in it…”
On the death of Gangster-turned-politician Mukhtar Ansari after suffering a cardiac arrest, Congress leader Surendra Rajput says, “Today Mukhtar Ansari’s death in the jail raises a big question BJP-led UP Government…This should be investigated thoroughly so that everyone gets to know what is going on…”
Post-mortem will be conducted tomorrow, after that they will give us the body. We will then follow with the further process (cremation). My father alleged being given a slow poison.
– Umar Ansari Son of #MukhtarAnsari
— Harsh Tiwari (@harsht2024) March 29, 2024
Former UP DGP OP Singh says, “Various kinds of rumours are being spread in the state, and a high alert has been issued. Police and administration are absolutely alert, especially in areas like Ghazipur, Mau, Azamgarh, Jaunpur, and Varanasi. Police are patrolling the streets and telling people to maintain peace and not spread rumours… When Mukhtar Ansari was lodged in Punjab jail, he had submitted many such applications on medical grounds so that he would not have to appear in UP courts.
He has not always been healthy and has been ill for long. Accusing that he was being poisoned is absolutely a baseless allegation. The situation will become absolutely clear after a postmortem is done… Mukhtar Ansari was a criminal, a don, and a mafia, and his death should not be thought of extensively…”.
