Mukhtar Ansari, born into an influential household in 1963, straddled the worlds of crime and politics in Uttar Pradesh. Mukhtar Ansari, who was accused in 63 felony instances together with 14 of homicide and was convicted and sentenced in eight of those since September 2022, died of cardiac arrest in a hospital in Banda on Thursday.

Mukhtar Ansari, 63, was brought to the Rani Durgawati Medical College from the Banda jail for a second time in per week shortly earlier than he was declared useless.

Mukhtar Ansari hailed from a distinguished lineage deeply rooted in India’s wrestle for independence. His paternal grandfather, Mukhtar Ahmed Ansari, was a notable chief within the Indian National Congress, turning into its president in 1927 and later, serving as Chancellor of Jamia Millia Islamia till his loss of life in 1936.

On the maternal facet, Brigadier Mohammad Usman, Mukhtar Ansari’s grandfather, was a embellished officer within the Indian Army. He died within the Nowshera sector of Jammu and Kashmir throughout a battle with Pakistan in 1948, incomes the Maha Vir Chakra posthumously.

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The gangster-turned-politician, who had been elected as MLA from Uttar Pradesh’s Mau 5 occasions on the tickets of various political events, had entered the world of crime to determine himself and his gang within the authorities contract mafia that was then flourishing within the state.

Mukhtar Ansari: 10 info about his world of crime

1. Mukhtar Ansari’s tryst with crime started as early as 1978 when he was simply 15 years of age. Ansari had his first brush with the legislation when he was booked for felony intimidation at Saidpur Police Station of Ghazipur.

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2. By 1986, Mukhtar Ansari had change into a widely known face within the contract mafia circle. That yr, one other case of homicide was lodged in opposition to him at Muhammad Police Station of Ghazipur.

3. Over the following decade, Mukhtar Ansari turned a standard face of crime with at the least 14 extra instances below severe prices lodged in opposition to him.

4. Mukhtar Ansari had 28 felony instances, together with that of homicide, and 7 instances below the UP’s Gangster Act registered in opposition to him since 2005.

5. The gangster-politician had been convicted in eight felony instances since September 2022 and had been going through trial in 21 instances in several courts.

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5. Mukhtar Ansari was awarded life time period and a penalty of ₹2.02 lakh by Varanasi MP/MLA earlier this month in a case of fraudulently acquiring an arms licence round 37 years in the past. This was the eighth case through which he was sentenced previously 18 months by totally different courts of UP and the second through which he was awarded a life time period.

6. On December 15, 2023, a Varanasi MP/MLA court docket sentenced Mukhtar Ansari to 5 years and 6 months for giving a loss of life menace to Mahavir Prasad Rungta for turning hostile and never pursuing a case involving the kidnapping and homicide of BJP chief and coal dealer Nand Kishore Rungta on January 22, 1997.

7. On October 27, 2023, a Ghazipur MP/MLA court docket awarded Mukhtar Ansari 10 years of rigorous imprisonment and a penalty of ₹5 lakh in a Gangster Act case lodged in opposition to him in 2010.

8. On June 5, 2023, a Varanasi MP/MLA awarded life imprisonment to Mukhtar Ansari within the case of the homicide of Awadesh Rai, the elder brother of former Congress MLA and current UP Congress president Ajay Rai. Awadesh Rai was sprayed with bullets when he and his brother Ajay have been standing exterior their home within the Lahurabir locality of Varanasi on August 3, 1991.

9. Among probably the most excessive profile of those instances have been the murders of the then sitting Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MLA Krishnanand Rai in 2005. On April 29, 2023, Ghazipur MP/MLA court docket had sentenced Ansari to 10 years of imprisonment within the case.

10. Since 2020, Ansari gang had been below intense warmth from Uttar Pradesh Police, which both seized or demolished unlawful property price ₹608 crore belonging to the gang.

Mukhtar Ansari’s political profession

Mukhtar Ansari was elected MLA from the Mau meeting constituency in japanese Uttar Pradesh 5 occasions from 1996 to 2022, twice as a Bahujan Samaj Party candidate, twice as an Independent and as soon as as a Quami Ekta Dal nominee.

In 2022, Mukhtar Ansari handed on the baton to his elder son Abbas Ansari, who received from the identical meeting seat as a candidate of the Suheldev Bhartiya Samaj Party in 2022, which was then in an alliance with the Samajwadi Party.