After UP jail transfer, Ansari booked below Arms Act for withholding weapons

Three days after BSP MLA Mukhtar Ansari was moved from a jail in Punjab to Uttar Pradesh to face trial in numerous circumstances, the Ghazipur police lodged an FIR towards the gangster-turned-politician for allegedly not handing over a double-barrel gun and a rifle regardless of the district administration cancelling the weapons licences.
While the gun licence was cancelled in 1996, the rifle’s licence was revoked in 2017.
The FIR was filed below totally different sections of the Arms Act following a grievance from sub-inspector Rajeev Tripathi on the Mohammadabad police station.
“The district magistrate had cancelled the licences of Mukhar Ansari’s double-barrel gun and a rifle at different time periods. Several notices were issued to him by the district administration, asking him to submit both the licences and the weapons but Mukhtar did not deposit them,” mentioned Mohammadabad Station House Officer (SHO) AN Singh.
Ansari was dropped at the state on April 7, weeks after the Supreme been Court directed the Punjab authorities handy over his custody to the Yogi Adityanath administration. Mukhtar is going through an extortion case in Punjab, and likewise has a number of pending circumstances in UP.