UP Court Orders Judicial Inquiry into Mukhtar Ansari’s Death

Lucknow: A chief judicial magistrate’s court in Uttar Pradesh’s Banda on Friday ordered a judicial probe into the death of gangster-politician Mukhtar Ansari.

According to reports, Banda Chief Judicial Magistrate (CJM) Bhagwan Das Gupta appointed Garima Singh, Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate (MP-MLA court, Banda) as the investigating officer in the case.

The CJM has sought the inquiry report within a month.

According to the probe order letter, a request was made by the Senior Superintendent, District Jail, Banda, on March 28 to nominate an officer for the judicial inquiry into the death of Ansari.

It is reported that the 63-year-old gangster-politician was admitted to the Rani Durgavati Medical College in Banda in “an unconscious state” on Thursday evening and died at the hospital following a cardiac arrest.

Afzal Ansari, the Ghazipur MP, on Tuesday alleged,

“Mukhtar said he was given a poisonous substance in food in jail. This happened for the second time. Around 40 days ago also he was given poison. And recently, he was again given this (poison) due to which his condition is bad.”