2007 Gangsters Act case: HC grants bail to Mukhtar Ansari | Allahabad Information
PRAYAGRAJ: The Allahabad HC on Monday granted bail to gangster-turned-politician Mukhtar Ansari in a 2007 Gangsters’ Act case however refused to remain his conviction.
Justice Raj Beer Singh stayed the superb of Rs 5 lakh imposed on Ansari by an MP-MLA court docket of Ghazipur which sentenced him to 10 years’ imprisonment on April 29, 2023. Justice Singh mentioned the matter associated to his conviction could be heard later.
Ansari’s lawyer Upendra Upadhyay had moved an software stating that the Gangsters’ Act was imposed on t Mukhtar on the idea of his alleged involvement within the homicide of BJP MLA Krishnanand Rai in 2005.
Mukhtar will stay in jail
He has already been acquitted in that case, subsequently, there stays nothing within the current case filed underneath Gangsters’ Act,” he mentioned. He argued that Mukhtar had served greater than 10 years sentence throughout the trial itself, so there was no justification in preserving him within the jail after conviction. The federal government counsel opposed these pleas, saying that there have been ample grounds to maintain him in jail. After listening to the events, the court docket had reserved its order on September 20.
The particular MP/MLA court docket in Ghazipur had on April 29, 2023 convicted Mukhtar and his brother Afzal Ansari within the 2007 Gangsters’ Act case. Whereas Mukhtar was handed 10 years imprisonment, Afzal was sentenced for 4 years. Although Mukhtar has been granted bail within the Gangsters’ Act case, he’ll stay in jail in reference to different prison circumstances, together with the Awadhesh Rai homicide case of Varanasi, the place he had been awarded life sentence by the classes court docket of Varanasi on June 5, 2023. Awadhesh Rai was elder brother of current UP Congress chief Ajay Rai. Ansari shot him in 1991.
