CHANDIGARH/BARABANKI/BALLIA: Punjab’s residence division has requested the Uttar Pradesh authorities to take custody of gangster-turned-politician Mukhtar Ansari from the Rupnagar jail on April 8, with BSP MP Afzal Ansari on Sunday saying that his brother’s “security” is now the duty of the judiciary and the Yogi Adityanath dispensation.
Mukhtar Ansari, who is needed in varied circumstances in Uttar Pradesh, has been lodged within the Rupnagar district jail in Punjab since January 2019 in reference to an alleged extortion case.
In a letter to the Uttar Pradesh Further Chief Secretary (Dwelling), the house division of Punjab requested for appropriate preparations to be made for the switch of under-trial prisoner Mukhtar Ansari.
“The stated handover is to be made at district jail Rupnagar on/earlier than April 8,” the letter said.
It additionally stated that Mukhtar Ansari suffers from sure medical situations and the identical could also be stored in thoughts whereas making preparations for his transport from Rupnagar jail to Banda jail in Uttar Pradesh.
Afzal Ansari, who’s the MP from Ghazipur, instructed PTI: “The security of Mukhtar after he involves the Uttar Pradesh jail is that of the judiciary and of the Yogi Adityanath authorities.
The courtroom ought to monitor the protection and medical services given to Mukhtar.
” He additionally stated that the protection of lifetime of any citizen is the duty of the federal government.
“This responsibility will increase by twice when the prisoner is in judicial custody and by 4 instances, when the state authorities information a petition within the Supreme Courtroom saying that the listening to of the case is getting affected,” the MP stated.
In its letter, the Punjab residence division referred to the March 26 Supreme Courtroom order that had directed the state authorities to switch the BSP’s MLA from Mau, Mukhtar Ansari, to Uttar Pradesh’s Banda jail in two weeks.
Delivering the order, the apex courtroom had additionally famous that Mukhtar Ansari was allegedly concerned in varied circumstances of try to homicide, homicide, dishonest and conspiracy other than offences beneath the Gangsters Act, lodged in Uttar Pradesh and 10 of those circumstances are at completely different levels of trial.
The Uttar Pradesh Police, officers stated on Sunday, has arrange a particular investigation group (SIT) to additional probe into the difficulty of pretend paperwork of the ambulance which was used to ferry Mukhtar Ansari from the Rupnagar jail to a Mohali courtroom not too long ago.
Barabanki Superintendent of Police Yamuna Prasad on Sunday stated the SIT has been constituted beneath the extra superintendent of police (north).
BSP MP Afzal Ansari stated his brother had nothing to do with the ambulance case.
“The reviews of Mukhtar buying the ambulance utilizing his MLA funds is fake.
Had it been the case, it might have been ascertained by going via the federal government paperwork,” he stated.
On April 2, a case was registered in Barabanki after the paperwork of the ambulance bearing a Uttar Pradesh registration quantity had been discovered to be pretend.
Mukhtar Ansari was on March 31 produced earlier than the Mohali courtroom in reference to the alleged 2019 extortion matter.
Amid tight safety preparations, Ansari was taken into the courtroom in a wheelchair.
He was despatched again to the Rupnagar jail within the ambulance after the looks.
“After an preliminary probe, the identify and tackle given for the registration of the ambulance had been discovered to be false.
An FIR on this regard has been registered by an extra highway transport officer in opposition to Dr Alka Rai, whose identify was given for the registration of the ambulance,” a senior police official stated in Barabanki.
The FIR was registered beneath related sections of the Indian Penal Code, together with 420 (forgery), 471 (fraudulently or dishonestly utilizing paperwork as real), 467 (forgery of worthwhile safety) and 468 (forgery for function of dishonest).
SP Yamuna Prasad had stated that appearing on media reviews that Ansari was produced in a courtroom in Punjab on an ambulance with the registration variety of Barabanki, police groups probed the matter and located that paperwork comparable to PAN, electoral picture id card and others had been pretend.
The tackle on which these paperwork had been made was additionally discovered to be mistaken, he stated.
Amid a row over the difficulty, a Punjab police official had clarified that an inmate could be transported in a non-public ambulance on medical grounds and the price of conveyance needs to be borne by the prisoner.
In keeping with the Punjab Prisoners (Attendance in Courtroom) Guidelines, 1969, the police group can enable a non-public car on the request of a prisoner, the official added.
It was additionally clarified that ambulance through which Mukhtar Ansari was taken to the courtroom on March 31, was not a bullet-proof car.
