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Gangster MLA Mukhtar Ansari convicted, in 26 year old case, gets 10-year jail term

By Lokmat English Desk | Updated: December 15, 2022 14:58 IST

The Ghazipur court on Thursday convicted and sentenced Mukhtar Ansari to ten-year imprisonment in a 1996 case under the ...

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The Ghazipur court on Thursday convicted and sentenced Mukhtar Ansari to ten-year imprisonment in a 1996 case under the Gangsters Act.His aide Bhim Singh has also been awarded a ten-year sentence by the court.The court has also imposed a fine of Rs five lakh each on the two.

This is the first case in which Ansari has been convicted by the court. It relates to the murder of Avadesh Rai, brother of Congress zonal president Ajai Rai, in 1996. Rai had testified in court against Mukhtar Ansari. Ansari has been lodged in various jails since 2005, but managed to get acquitted in most other cases. The biggest case against him is for the murder of a contractor in Uttar Pradesh’s Mau. The gangster had committed murders in the years 1978, 1986, 1988, 1990 and 1992.

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