NEW DELHI: Anuj Kannaujia, a shooter from Mukhtar Ansari’s gang, was killed in a police encounter on Saturday in Jamshedpur. The Uttar Pradesh Special Task Force (STF) and Jharkhand Police carried out the joint operation after tracking him for five years. He had a bounty of Rs 2.5 lakh on his head.According to ADG UP…
Abbas Ansari (File photo/IANS) The Supreme Court granted bail to MLA Abbas Ansari on Friday in a money laundering case. Ansari, the son of the late gangster-politician Mukhtar Ansari, received the relief from a bench comprising Justices M M Sundresh and Pankaj Mithal.SC had sought a response from the Enforcement Directorate (ED) on an appeal…
LUCKNOW: A flexi hoarding came up outside the Samajwadi Party headquarters in Lucknow on Saturday morning with an appeal to all citizens to mourn the death of ‘former MLA’ Mukhtar Ansari and not to celebrate Eid this year. The giant hoarding was later removed by the district administration.The hoarding came up a day before Akhilesh…
LUCKNOW: Gangster-turned-politician Mukhtar Ansari will be buried at his native Ghazipur district on Saturday, in the family’s Kalibag graveyard in Yusufpur Mohammadabad. The autopsy on the body of the former five-term MLA revealed that “myocardial infarction (heart attack) was the cause of Ansari’s death“, said a senior police officer. The viscera has been preserved for…
LUCKNOW: Gangster-turned-politician Mukhtar Ansari will be buried at his native Ghazipur district on Saturday, in the family’s Kalibag graveyard in Yusufpur Mohammadabad. The autopsy on the body of the former five-term MLA revealed that “myocardial infarction (heart attack) was the cause of Ansari’s death“, said a senior police officer. The viscera has been preserved for…
VARANASI: The widow of UP BJP MLA Krishnanand Rai described the death of Mukhtar Ansari, gangster-turned-politician who had killed her husband in 2005, as a “blessing” from God.Ansari (63) died after suffering cardiac arrest in Banda jail on Thursday. “It (Ansari’s death) is a blessing of Baba (Lord Shiva). We always prayed to Baba for…
VARANASI: The widow of UP BJP MLA Krishnanand Rai described the death of Mukhtar Ansari, gangster-turned-politician who had killed her husband in 2005, as a “blessing” from God.Ansari (63) died after suffering cardiac arrest in Banda jail on Thursday. “It (Ansari’s death) is a blessing of Baba (Lord Shiva). We always prayed to Baba for…
LUCKNOW: Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav on Friday targeted Uttar Pradesh‘s Yogi Adityanath-led BJP govt over gangster-turned-politician Mukhtar Ansari‘s death in jail, demanding that all such suspicious fatalities in custody be probed under the supervision of a Supreme Court judge. BSP chief Mayawati also pressed for a high-level probe into Ansari’s death.“UP is passing through…
LUCKNOW: Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav on Friday targeted Uttar Pradesh‘s Yogi Adityanath-led BJP govt over gangster-turned-politician Mukhtar Ansari‘s death in jail, demanding that all such suspicious fatalities in custody be probed under the supervision of a Supreme Court judge. BSP chief Mayawati also pressed for a high-level probe into Ansari’s death.“UP is passing through…
LUCKNOW: A day after Mukhtar Ansari died at Banda’s Rani Durgavati Medical College, two investigations were ordered on Friday into his sudden death – one by the judiciary and the other by Banda district magistrate – even as the gangster-turned-politician’s son Umar repeated his allegation that slow poisoning and medical negligence took his father’s life.Both…
