September 24, 2024

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Amarinder tried to defend UP gangster Mukhtar Ansari from Yogi, however Supreme Court has spoiled Punjab govt’s antics

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In the final two years, the Punjab authorities tried its greatest to guard gangster turned politician Mukhtar Ansari, who’s going through a number of circumstances in Uttar Pradesh. A sitting MLA from Muslim-dominated Mau constituency, Ansari is a history-sheeter with nearly each part of the Indian Penal Code imposable on him, as a result of he has executed all of it – homicide to extortion.After the Yogi authorities got here to energy, Ansari was languishing in a UP jail and being rightfully handled like a prison that Mukhtar Ansari is as he helplessly watched the UP authorities destroy his unlawful empire little by little, Ansari was transferred to Ropar jail in Punjab after the state police produced a manufacturing warrant in early 2019 in reference to an extortion case filed in Mohali.Since then, a number of efforts by the UP authorities to carry again Ansari have been thwarted by the Punjab authorities. Now, the Supreme Court has ordered the Punjab authorities to handover the custody of Ansari to the UP authorities.[PC:SabrangIndia]The Court noticed that the Punjab authorities denied the custody to UP Police each time on “trivial grounds, under the guise of medical grounds by mentioning ordinary diseases like diabetes mellitus, skin allergy, hypertension, backache, throat infection”.The Court acknowledged {that a} “convict or an undertrial prisoner, who disobeys the law of the land, cannot oppose his transfer from one prison to another, be a convict or an undertrial prisoner”.“Courts are not to be a helpless bystander, when the rule of law is being challenged with impunity,” the judges stated.The dreaded gangster would quickly be beneath the custody of the UP authorities and face trials. Given the a number of circumstances of homicide and lots of different crimes towards him, he would both get a life-time jail sentence or hanged.The Yogi Adityanath authorities is destroying Ansari’s unlawful empire at a menacing tempo as alleged unlawful properties price crores of rupees associated to the mafia don in Lucknow, Mau and Ghazipur have been demolished by the state companies. Earlier in July, the Ghazipur district administration had demolished a godown, constructed illegally on public land.The godown was constructed rather than a pond by M/s Vikas Construction wherein Ansari’s spouse – Afsa Ansari and his brother-in-law, Aatif Raja apart from three others – Zakir Hussain, Ravindra Narayan Singh and Anwar Shahzada are companions, stated Ghazipur DM OP Arya.The godown had been rented out by the gang to the Food Corporation of India. The administration can be stated to be probing into irregularities involving Gajal Hotel in Mahubagh locality of Ghazipur, with each the properties registered beneath the title of Mukhtar Ansari’s spouse.The police additionally seized properties price Rs 58.91 lakh of Mukhtar Ansari’s shooter Brijesh Sonkar and arrested seven accomplices of his. Also, properties price Rs. 39.80 crore has been free of unlawful possession of Ansari’s family members and 33 weapons have been deposited in several jails thus far after their licenses had been suspended.In August, an unlawful slaughterhouse of an in depth aide of Mukhtar Ansari was additionally demolished by the Mau district administration with the UP Police issuing a non-bailable warrant towards Ansari’s spouse Afsa Ansari and her brothers Sharjeel Raza and Anwar Shahzad for allegedly occupying a sealed property illegally in September.With Ansari set to be handed over to Uttar Pradesh Police, the query should be requested what was the Punjab authorities and Amarinder Singh’s curiosity in defending him? According to few observers, Hamid Ansari, former Vice-president of India, who’s a cousin of Mukhtar Ansari and a veteran chief of Congress, was allegedly pulling strings to maintain his gangster member of the family protected in a Punjab jail.