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Mukhtar Ansari Death News: The 63-year-old, who was lodged in a jail in UP’s Banda, died around 8.25 pm.
Mukhtar Ansari, a convicted criminal who later became a politician, passed away of a heart attack on Thursday (March 28), after he was admitted to Rani Durgavati Medical College in Uttar Pradesh’s Banda district because of his health condition.
He was rushed to the hospital in an unconscious state after he complained of vomiting.
The 63-year-old, Ansari who was lodged in a jail in UP’s Banda, died around 8.25 pm.
Prohibition orders under CrPC Section 144 were put in place across Uttar Pradesh shortly after his death, according to police on Thursday.
Who was Mukhtar Ansari?
The five-time MLA from Mau in eastern Uttar Pradesh was involved in 52 criminal cases in Uttar Pradesh and other states, as well as the property business. As a candidate for the Bahujan Samajwadi Party (BSP), he ran for office twice. His most recent assembly election campaign was in 2017.
A court in northern India’s Varanasi sentenced jailed mafia don-turned-politician Mukhtar Ansari to life imprisonment for cheating, forgery of documents, criminal conspiracy, and violating the Arms Act to obtain a double-barrel gun license in 1986.
Mukhtar Ansari: Cases and convictions
Mukhtar Ansari faces nearly five dozen criminal cases.
In December last year, he was sentenced to five-and-a-half years of imprisonment in a case related to threatening a witness in VHP treasurer’s kidnapping in 1997.
In April 2023, he was awarded 10 years in jail in a Gangsters Act case while his brother and co-accused, Afzal Ansari, was also given four-year imprisonment after which he lost his Lok Sabha membership.
Later, the Supreme Court suspended Afzal’s sentence, allowing him to return to Parliament.
In September 2022, the Lucknow bench of the Allahabad High Court sentenced Mukhtar to seven years in jail for threatening a jailer and pointing a pistol at him.
(With inputs from agencies)