Mukhtar Ansari, a gangster-turned-politician, was given a 10-year prison term on Saturday by a Ghazipur court for his role in many murder and kidnapping cases. Ansari was fined Rs 5 lakhs as part of the MP-MLA courts decision to charge him with violating the Gangster Act.Security was increased outside the court before the decision in the kidnapping and murder proceedings against Mukhtar Ansari and his elder brother, BSP MP Afzal Ansari. Former five-term MLA Mukhtar Ansari was charged in the 2005 murder of BJP MLA Krishnanand Rai and the 1996 kidnapping of Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) leader Nandkishore Rungta.Mukhtar Ansari was charged with murder in January of this year at the Mohammadabad police station in Ghazipur in relation to the 2001 “Usri Chatti” gang war incident. He was accused under Sections 302, 147, 148, and 149 of the Indian Penal Code (IPC). The mafia lord and his accomplice Bhim Singh were sentenced to ten years in prison last December by a court in Ghazipur for five crimes, including murder and attempts at murder, including the assassination of constable Raghuvansh Singh and the assault on the Additional SP of Ghazipur. Mukhtar Ansari was recently found guilty and convicted by the Allahabad High Courts Lucknow bench of threatening prisoner SK Awasthi with a gun in 2003.
