Akhilesh, Mayawati Demand Probe Into Mukhtar Ansari’s Death

Lucknow: Samajwadi Party (SP) chief Akhilesh Yadav and Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) supremo Mayawati raised question marks on the law-and-order situation in Uttar Pradesh after the death of gangster-turned-politician Mukhtar Ansari following his death in Banda.

Akhilesh Yadav on Friday said there should be a probe supervised by a Supreme Court judge into such “doubtful” cases.

Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) president Mayawati also pitched for a high-level probe into Ansari’s death.

Ansari is said to have died in the Banda Medical College due to a cardiac arrest on Thursday.

In a post in Hindi on X, Akhilesh Yadav said, “The death of a hostage or prisoner in any of the following circumstances will erode public confidence in the judicial process – while confined in a police station, in a fight inside the jail, on falling ill inside the prison, while being taken to hospital, during treatment in hospital, by showing a false encounter, by showing a false suicide, by showing casualties in an accident – all such doubtful cases should be probed under the supervision of a Supreme Court judge.”

Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) president Mayawati in a Hindi post on X, said: “The persistent apprehensions and serious allegations made by Mukhtar Anasari’s family regarding his death in jail require a high-level investigation so that the true facts of his death can be revealed.”

Ansari’s son Umar  told reporters that his father had raised apprehensions that he was being slow-poisoned.

“He was given poison with his dinner on March 19 and had apprised the court of the same,” Umar Ansari said.