UP Court Finds Ex-MLA Mukhtar Ansari Guilty In 2010 Gangsters Act Case, Sentenced To 10 Years In Jail; 6th Conviction In 13 Months

Ansari, 60, is a former five-time MLA, who is presently lodged in the Banda district jail. This is his 6^th conviction in the last 13 months. 

In June this year, a Varanasi court convicted him in connection with the 1991 Awadhesh Rai murder case. Rai, a Congress leader and brother of Former MLA Ajay Rai, was gunned down in broad daylight outside Ajay Rai's house in Varanasi in 1991.

In April this year, he was convicted in another Gangster Act case, lodged against him for his involvement in the kidnapping of Vishwa Hindu Parishad office-bearer Nandkishore Rungta in the year 1996 and also in the murder of Bharatiya Janata Party MLA Krishnanand Rai in the year 2005.

In December last year, a Court in Uttar Pradesh's Ghazipur District convicted former MLA Mukhtar Ansari and his aide (Bhim Singh) in a 26-year-old Gangster Case.

Earlier, in September last year, the High Court had convicted him in two cases. In one of the cases, the HC had found him guilty of intimidating a Jailer who was performing public duty by abusing him and pointing a revolver/pistol toward him, and threatening to kill him in the year 2003.

Read more about the case here: Allahabad High Court Sentences Mukhtar Ansari To 7-Year-Jail For Abusing, Intimidating And Threatening A Jailer For His Life In 2003.

In another case, the HC had convicted Ansari to 5 years in jail in connection with a 23-year-old case under the Uttar Pradesh Gangsters and Anti-Social Activities (Prevention) Act, 1986.

Read more about the case here: Allahabad High Court Sentences Mukhtar Ansari To 5-Year Jail Under Gangsters Act In A 23-Year-Old Case