Vehicle Used To Carry Arms, Another Arrest In Mukhtar Ansari Ambulance Case: Police

The aide of Mukhtar Ansari was arrested on charges of forgery and cheating for his alleged involvement in registration of the ambulance, said police.

The bulletproof ambulance in which don-turned-politician Mukhtar Ansari travelled from jail to Punjab court was also used for carrying firearms, police said today, announcing another arrest in the case. The accused, Anand Yadav, Mr Ansari's aide, was arrested from Faizabad road on the charges of forgery and cheating for his alleged involvement in the registration of the ambulance, Superintendent of Police Yamuna Prasad said, adding that he had a reward of Rs 25,000 on his arrest. The Police Superintendent said that firearms were carried in the ambulance but didn't share details in this regard. Doctor Alka Rai (of Mau's Shyam Sanjeevani Hospital), who was arrested earlier in connection with the case, told police that Mr Ansari and his aides, Mujahid and Rajnath Yadav, forced her to sign some documents for getting the ambulance transferred in the name of the hospital.