Gangster Mukhtar Ansari Sentenced To Life In Jail In 32-Year-Old Murder Case
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20 other cases against him are pending trail in various parts of the state. A five-term MLA, Mukhtar Ansari was handed a 10-year jail term in another kidnapping and murder case this April.
Jailed gangster Mukhtar Ansari was today convicted by a court in Uttar Pradesh's Varanasi in a 32-year-old murder case and sentenced to life imprisonment. He was also fined Rs 1,00,000.
Ansari has been charged with the murder of a Congress leader in 1991, when he was starting to gain political prominence. On August 3, 1991, Congress leader and brother of former MLA Ajay Rai, Awadhesh Rai, was shot dead outside Ajay Rai's house in Varanasi. Mukhtar Ansari was not an MLA when he committed the crime. Security was tightened at the court complex ahead of the verdict. Mr Rai had named Mukhtar Ansari, Bhim Singh, former MLA Abdul Kalim, and two others, in the FIR.
This is Ansari's fifth conviction in the 61 criminal cases against him. 20 other cases against him are pending trail in various parts of the state. A five-term MLA, Mukhtar Ansari was handed a 10-year jail term in another kidnapping and murder case this April.
The Varanasi MP MLA court concluded the hearing in the Awadhesh Rai case after final arguments on May 19, reserved its order, and fixed June 5 as the date to deliver it.
