Gangstar-turned-politician Mukhtar Ansari was laid to rest in his native place Ghazipur in Uttar Pradesh on Saturday amid tight security.
Mukhtar Ansari's burial likely to be held in UP's Ghazipur tomorrow
Ghazipur (UP)/IBNS/UNI: Security arrangements have been tightened in Ghazipur and Mau districts of Uttar Pradesh, with the body of mafia-turned-politician and former MLA Mukhtar Ansari likely to reach his native district of Ghazipur late on Friday night.
Mayawati, Akhilesh Yadav demand high-level probe into Mukhtar Ansari's death
Lucknow/UNI: Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) supremo Mayawati and Samajwadi Party (SP) president on Friday demanded a high-level probe into the death of mafia-turned-politician and former MLA Mukhtar Ansari.
Mafia-turned-politician Mukhtar Ansari dies of cardiac arrest at 63
Banda (UP)/IBNS/UNI: Mafia-turned-politician Mukhtar Ansari died of cardiac arrest in Uttar Pradesh on Thursday. He was 63.
After Rahul Gandhi, another Lok Sabha MP set to lose parliament membership
Lucknow: Mukhtar Ansari, a jailed gangster-turned-politician, was sentenced to 10 years imprisonment on Saturday in the 2005 kidnapping and murder case of BJP MLA Krishnanand Rai, media reports said.
Mukhtar Ansari gets 10-yr imprisonment in Gangster Act case
Ghazipur/UNI: Mafia-turned-politician Mukhtar Ansari was on Saturday sentenced to 10 years imprisonment along with a penalty of Rs 5 lakh under Gangster Act, which included Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MLA Krishnanand Rai murder case, by an MP-MLA court here, prosecution sources said.
Prisoner shoots down two, including Mukhtar Ansari's close aide, in UP jail
Lucknow/IBNS: An Uttar Pradesh’s Chitrakoot jail inmate shot dead two gangsters, one of them a close aide of gangster-politician Mukhtar Ansari, and held five other prisoners hostage before he was killed by a police team on Friday morning, according to media reports.
Punjab asks UP govt to shift gangster-turned-politician Mukhtar Ansari from Ropar jail by Apr 8
Lucknow/UNI: After a long political and legal battle, the Punjab government finally wrote to Uttar Pradesh to make arrangements to transfer mafia don Mukhtar Ansari from Ropar jail to Banda jail by April 8.