Mukhtar Ansari ambulance row: U.P. Police lodge FIR against woman BJP leader

Alka Rai is charged with forgery in the ownership of ambulance used to ferry jailed Mau MLA Mukhtar Ansari by Punjab Police

Police in Uttar Pradesh’s Barabanki district registered an FIR against a woman Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader on Friday on charges of cheating and forgery after it surfaced that an ambulance with a number plate from the district was used to ferry jailed MLA Mukhtar Ansari from Ropar jail to a court in Mohali by the Punjab Police. The Supreme Court had last week to hand over the custody of the controversial MLA. The case was lodged against Alka Rai, who claimed before media the she was the regional general secretary of the BJP’s women unit in Gorakhpur. The controversy erupted after the U.P. government alleged that the Punjab government had allowed Mr. Ansari to be escorted to court in a luxury, bullet-proof ambulance that had a number plate of Barabanki district.