Special workforce of UP Police leaves for Ropar to deliver again Mukhtar Ansari

A workforce of the Uttar Pradesh Police on Monday left for Punjab to deliver again gangster-turned-politician Mukhtar Ansari, who faces trial in over a dozen instances within the state, officers stated on Monday. The Punjab Home Department has requested the Uttar Pradesh authorities to take custody of the jailed BSP MLA by April 8.
“A police team has left for Punjab today to bring Mukhtar Ansari. The team will take all the security measures required in bringing him,” Superintendent of Police (Banda) Siddharth Shankar Meena stated.
Senior police officers refused to reveal the main points like what number of police personnel had been going to deliver Ansari.
Ansari, a history-sheeter within the UP Police information, is at present lodged in Ropar jail in reference to an extortion case.
The Punjab Police had introduced him over in 2019 from a UP jail primarily based on a manufacturing warrant issued a few fortnight after the registration of the extortion case. In an order on March 26, the Supreme Court, on a plea of the UP authorities, had directed the Punjab authorities at hand over Ansari’s custody to the Uttar Pradesh Police in two weeks.
In the letter, the Punjab Home Department had requested the Uttar Pradesh further chief secretary (Home) for appropriate preparations to be made for Ansari’s switch. It additionally stated that Ansari suffered from sure medical circumstances and the identical could also be saved in thoughts whereas making preparations for his switch.
Sources stated that an ambulance has additionally been despatched with the police workforce to Punjab.
Ansari shall be delivered to Banda district jail, the place further safety preparations have been made for his security, police stated.
Additional Director General (Law & Order) Prashant Kumar, in the meantime, stated that 96 members of “Ansari’s gang” have been arrested and 85 of them have been booked below the Gangsters’ Act. Police additionally stated that the arms licences of 72 associates of Ansari have been cancelled or suspended, and have hooked up seized, freed or demolished properties value Rs 192 crore hyperlink to the BSP MLA and his associates.
Police stated that Ansari is going through 52 instances in UP and elsewhere, and 15 of them are within the trial stage.