Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann on Thursday mentioned that his authorities has returned the file of the bills of the legal professionals representing gangster-turned-politician Mukhtar Ansari’s case, including that the federal government is planning to cost bills from the minister of the earlier authorities who had ordered him to be saved within the state.
“The UP gangster was saved in Ropar Jail with amenities. He didn’t seem regardless of the warrants issued 48 occasions. Costly legal professionals had been employed with bills of Rs 55 lakh. I returned the file for clearing the bills from cash collected by taxes paid by individuals. The minister who was accountable for the choice (on Ansari), he can be requested to pay,” Mann mentioned in a tweet.
Within the 12 months 2019, Mukhtar Ansari, MLA from Mau, was lodged in Punjab’s Ropar jail the place he was named in an extortion case. Ansari didn’t apply for bail within the FIR registered in Punjab and the police didn’t file any cost sheet towards him.
In a number of instances, a number of manufacturing warrants had been issued by Uttar Pradesh Police towards Ansari however Punjab Police didn’t enable him to be shifted to Uttar Pradesh on the grounds of ailing well being.
Supreme Court docket within the 12 months 2021 ordered the switch of mafia don and BSP MLA Mukhtar Ansari from Ropar jail in Punjab to Banda jail in Uttar Pradesh.
Yesterday Uttar Pradesh police declared a bounty of Rs 25,000 on gangster-turned-politician Mukhtar Ansari’s spouse, Afsa Ansari.
A reward of Rs 25,000 has been declared on the arrest of Afsa Ansari, spouse of Mukhtar Ansari, who is needed in a case registered underneath the Gangsters Act at Police Station Dakshin Tola,” Mahesh Singh Attri, Extra Superintendent of Police, Mau mentioned.
Earlier in January this 12 months, the police registered a homicide case towards Mukhtar Ansari in connection to the 2001 ‘Usri Chatti’ gang struggle incident. A case underneath part 302 of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) was registered towards Ansari at PS Mohammadabad in Ghazipur.
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First Revealed: Apr 21 2023 | 7:58 AM IST