A Banda court has directed an additional chief judicial magistrate (CJM) to investigate the death of former Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) MLA Mukhtar Ansari and submit a report within one month, PTI reported..Ansari passed away at the Rani Durgavati Medical College in Banda, Uttar Pradesh last night after reportedly suffering a cardiac arrest.It is claimed that he was taken to the hospital at around 8:45 PM after losing consciousness in the district jail in Banda, where he was lodged following his conviction in various criminal cases..On March 13 this year, a special court in Varanasi had sentenced Ansari to life imprisonment in a fake arms license case.He was convicted in several other cases including a kidnapping case, a 1999 case under the Uttar Pradesh Gangsters Act, the 1991 murder of Awadhesh Rai (the brother of a Congress leader) and a 2003 case for intimidating a jailer by pointing a pistol at him..On March 21, Ansari had purportedly penned a letter to the Chief Judicial Magistrate in Mau, alleging that he was being poisoned by the jail authorities in Banda.
A Banda court has directed an additional chief judicial magistrate (CJM) to investigate the death of former Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) MLA Mukhtar Ansari and submit a report within one month, PTI reported..Ansari passed away at the Rani Durgavati Medical College in Banda, Uttar Pradesh last night after reportedly suffering a cardiac arrest.It is claimed that he was taken to the hospital at around 8:45 PM after losing consciousness in the district jail in Banda, where he was lodged following his conviction in various criminal cases..On March 13 this year, a special court in Varanasi had sentenced Ansari to life imprisonment in a fake arms license case.He was convicted in several other cases including a kidnapping case, a 1999 case under the Uttar Pradesh Gangsters Act, the 1991 murder of Awadhesh Rai (the brother of a Congress leader) and a 2003 case for intimidating a jailer by pointing a pistol at him..On March 21, Ansari had purportedly penned a letter to the Chief Judicial Magistrate in Mau, alleging that he was being poisoned by the jail authorities in Banda.