NEW DELHI: An MP/MLA court docket in Varanasi on Wednesday awarded a life sentence to gangster-turned-politician Mukhtar Ansari in a case for acquiring an arms licence by use of cast paperwork in 1990. The jailed mafia don was convicted within the case underneath Part 428 (mischief), 467 (forgery of worthwhile safety), 468 (forgery for objective of dishonest), 120B (legal conspiracy) of the Indian Penal Code and Part 30 of the Arms Act. Throughout the listening to, Ansari participated in court docket proceedings through video conferencing from Banda jail, the place he’s presently incarcerated.
MP/MLA Courtroom Varanasi sentences gangster turned politician Mukhtar Ansari to life imprisonment in 36-year-old faux arms license case underneath sections 466/120B.
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It’s alleged that in June 1987, Ansari submitted an utility to the then District Justice of the Peace of Ghazipur for a double-barrel gun license. Subsequently, the arms license was acquired utilizing cast signatures of each the District Justice of the Peace and the Superintendent of Police.
In December 1990, CB-CID uncovered this fraudulent exercise and a grievance was filed with the police. Based mostly on this grievance, a case was registered at a police station in Ghazipur in opposition to 5 people together with Mukhtar Ansari.
In December final yr, the MP/MLA court docket sentenced gangster-turned-politician Mukhtar Ansari to 5 and a half years of rigorous imprisonment and imposed a wonderful of Rs 10,000 within the case associated to threatening a witness within the coal businessman Nand Kishore Rungta homicide case.
Ansari was discovered responsible within the case of threatening Mahavir Prasad Rungta, a witness to the homicide of coal businessman Nand Kishore Rungta. Nand Kishore Rungta, a coal businessman from Jawahar Nagar of Bhelupur police station space of Varanasi, was murdered after being kidnapped on January 22, 1997.
Mafia Mukhtar Ansari has thus far been sentenced in a complete of seven circumstances, together with the 1991 homicide case of Awadhesh Rai, by which Ansari was sentenced to life imprisonment in June this yr.
