UP Police Team Reaches Punjab To Take Custody Of Jailed MLA Mukhtar Ansari

The 150-member Uttar Pradesh Police team equipped with sophisticated weapons left from Banda on Monday morning to bring back Mukhtar Ansari, the BSP's Mau MLA, from Punjab.

Several Uttar Pradesh Police personnel reached Punjab's Rupnagar district on Tuesday to bring back jailed gangster-turned-politician Mukhtar Ansari, who faces trial in several cases in the state, officials said. A team of Uttar Pradesh Police leaves from Banda to bring back gangster-turned-politician Mukhtar Ansari from Rupnagar Jail in Punjab. pic.twitter.com/LB4tRdSvQK Around seven vehicles of the Uttar Pradesh Police reached the Rupnagar Police Lines around 4:30 am, they said. The Police Lines is around four kilometres away from the Rupnagar jail, where Mukhtar Ansari has been lodged since January 2019 in connection with an extortion case. Punjab's home department in a letter had asked the Uttar Pradesh government to take his custody from the Rupnagar jail on or before April 8.