Mukhtar Ansari brought back to UP's Banda jail from Punjab prison

Gangster-turned-politician Mukhtar Ansari was brought back to Uttar Pradesh's Banda jail early Wednesday. He was earlier lodged at a Punjab jail in connection with an extortion case.

After spending more than two years in a Punjab prison, gangster-turned-politician Mukhtar Ansari was brought back to Banda jail in Uttar Pradesh Wednesday morning. Mukhtar Ansari was ferried in an ambulance guarded by a strong posse of gun-toting security personnel throughout his 900-km journey from Rupnagar to Banda town in Uttar Pradesh. The Uttar Pradesh Police on Tuesday took custody of 57-year-old Mukhtar Ansari at Punjab's Rupnagar jail to transfer him to Banda prison.