Tribune News Service

Arun Sharma

Ropar, July 4

The Ropar police had booked the dreaded gangster-turned-politician Mukhtar Ansari in a five-year-old homicide case of a labourer at Morinda, apparently to scuttle any transfer of the Uttar Pradesh Police to take him away to face felony circumstances registered towards him of their state.

Was introduced on warrant from up

• Jan 22, 2019: The police had introduced Mukhtar Ansari on a manufacturing warrant from a jail in Uttar Pradesh after lodging an FIR that he had sought a ransom of Rs 10 crore from a builder in Sector 70 in Mohali
• June 27, 2019: Ansari was named in a case associated to the homicide of a labourer at Morinda
• April 6, 2021: The UP Government bought Ansari’s custody via the Supreme Court

CM Bhagwant Mann claimed in the present day that the jail authorities denied custody of Ansari to the UP Police 25 instances on medical grounds.

The police had claimed that Ansari was named within the case primarily based on the assertion of Vidya Rani, the sister of slain labourer Pawan Gupta on June 27, 2019. Gupta was discovered murdered in 2014 in a home the place he was staying as a watchman at Morinda. An unidentified labourer staying with him was discovered lacking afterwards.

Interestingly, Vidya Rani, speaking to The Tribune on March 7, 2021, had claimed that she didn’t know something about Ansari. Though Vidya Rani couldn’t be contacted by the reporter in the present day, her son Adesh, reiterating that the household was positive that Ansari had nothing to do with the homicide of his uncle, mentioned the police once more visited their residence round six months in the past and bought signatures of her mom on some papers.

A video in possession of this reporter confirmed her making a press release, “My brother was a labourer and had no enmity with anyone. What could be his relation with a big gangster or politicians?” Claiming that neither she knew about Ansari, nor she had recorded any such assertion with the police. Vidya Rani had additionally mentioned the police by no means contacted her after the dying of her brother in 2014 and it was solely in January 2021 when she was known as on the Morinda police station thrice to debate the progress within the case.

She had additionally claimed that the police, as a substitute of telling her something, had been solely to know whether or not she had any clue concerning the accused. Later, a policeman visited her home and bought her signatures on some papers on the pretext of investigating the case, mentioned Vidya Rani.

After bringing Ansari from Uttar Pradesh in January 2019, he was first booked by the Punjab Police in a case of extortion and intimidation registered on the Mataur police station in Mohali on the criticism of a businessman. The Uttar Pradesh Police, in search of the custody of Ansari on manufacturing warrants, had been despatched again many instances by the Ropar jail authorities on medical grounds.

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