A case has been registered right here after the paperwork of an Uttar Pradesh registration quantity ambulance, used to move gangster-turned politician Mukhtar Ansari to a Mohali courtroom, have been discovered to be faux, officers mentioned on Friday.
The BSP MLA from Mau, who is needed in Uttar Pradesh for numerous instances, was on March 31 produced earlier than a Mohali courtroom in reference to an alleged 2019 extortion matter.
Amid tight safety preparations, Ansari was taken to courtroom in a wheelchair. He was despatched again to Punjab’s Rupnagar jail in an ambulance after the looks.
“After an initial probe, the name and address given for the registration of the ambulance were found to be false. An FIR in this regard has been registered by an additional road transport officer against Dr Alka Rai, whose name was given for the registration of the ambulance,” a senior police official mentioned right here.
The FIR was registered underneath related sections of the Indian Penal Code, together with 420 (forgery), 471 (fraudulently or dishonestly utilizing paperwork as real), 467 (forgery of useful safety) and 468 (forgery for objective of dishonest).
Superintendent of Police, Yamuna Prasad mentioned appearing on media stories that Ansari was produced in a courtroom in Punjab on an ambulance with the registration variety of Barabanki, police groups probed the matter and located that paperwork corresponding to PAN, electoral photograph id card and others have been faux.
The tackle on which these paperwork have been made was additionally discovered to be flawed, he mentioned.
The Supreme Court had not too long ago directed the Punjab authorities handy over the custody of Ansari to the Uttar Pradesh Police, saying it was being denied on trivial grounds underneath the guise of medical points.
The apex courtroom had additionally mentioned {that a} convict or an undertrial prisoner, who disobeys the legislation of the land, can not oppose his switch from one jail to a different and the courts are to not be a helpless bystander when the rule of legislation is being challenged with impunity.
The courtroom had mentioned the custody of Ansari, a BSP MLA from the Mau constituency, be handed over to Uttar Pradesh inside two weeks in order to lodge him in Banda district jail in Uttar Pradesh.
The apex courtroom had additionally famous that Ansari was allegedly concerned in numerous instances of try and homicide, homicide, dishonest and conspiracy other than offences underneath the Gangsters Act, lodged in Uttar Pradesh and out of them, 10 instances are on the levels of trial.
Mukhtar Ansari’s spouse has written to President Ram Nath Kovind, expressing fears that he may be killed in a faux encounter whereas being transferred from Punjab to Uttar Pradesh following a Supreme Court path.
His brother, BSP MP from Ghazipur, Afzal Ansari informed PTI, “To divert attention from the life threat to Mukhtar, BJP government is making wheelchair and ambulance as an issue.”
“If the BJP is making Mukhtar Ansari (2022) election agenda, we and our supporters will also make vindictive action of the government against their family an issue,” he mentioned.
Asserting that Mukhtar Ansari has been in poor health for the previous two years, his brother mentioned that if there may be any shortcoming within the paperwork of the ambulance, a wonderful may very well be imposed.
