In January 2023, a sessions court convicted the self-styled godman for the repeated rape of a female disciple at a Surat Ashram. The Gujarat High Court recently refused to suspend his life sentence.
Palakkad Additional Sessions judge R Vinayaka Rao found the accused, Cheruthuppallur Suresh and Prabhu Kumar, guilty of murder of one Aneesh, who had married Kumar's daughter.
Those sentenced are Ismail, Muneer, Sidhique, Muhammed Anees, Shuhaib, Jasim, and Samad. They are alleged to be activists of the Indian Union Muslim League (IUML).
In the present case, the couple had married in 2011 and have a daughter. In 2020, the wife moved a Family Court in Gwalior for divorce on the ground that he was convicted for murder in 2019.
The engineer, Nishant Agrawal, was arrested in 2018 in a joint operation by the Military Intelligence and ATS of Uttar Pradesh and Maharashtra after he was booked for offences under the Official Secre ...
Ansari is presently lodged in Banda jail in Uttar Pradesh. He has earlier been convicted in several criminal cases, including for kidnapping, gangster activities, criminal intimidation and murder.