Former five-time MLA from Mau, Mukhtar Ansari, has filed a plea in a Varanasi court apprehending life risk in Banda jail the place he’s lodged since April 2021.
He talked about this earlier than the particular decide MP/MLA periods court, Varanasi throughout his look by way of video conferencing on Could 19 in 1991 Awadesh Rai homicide case. Later, considered one of his legal professionals filed a written plea in the matter on Tuesday.
Mukhtar Ansari’s lawyer in Varanasi court Srinath Tripathi confirmed that one other lawyer Liyakat Ali has filed a written software in the court. He stated Liyakat Ali visited Mukhtar Ansari in Banda jail on Could 19 when Ansari apprised him about life risk in the jail as some suspicious individuals in civvies visited his barrack thrice on April 1, 19 and Could 18. He stated one of many suspicious individuals posed as SP Banda and demanded photocopies of his paperwork like voter ID, Aadhar and PAN card.
The lawyer had apprised the court that the go to of suspicious individuals was not talked about in the jail register and requested to save lots of the CCTV footage of Banda jail so the suspicious guests could possibly be recognized. He stated Ansari has been harassed by these visits of suspicious individuals often and he fears that they might plan to remove him contained in the jail.
Apparently, Ansari filed this software in the court after registration of a recent FIR in opposition to him for alleged discrepancies in his date of delivery on completely different identification playing cards on Could 18.
The police stated these ID playing cards have been recovered from him throughout a shock examine on the Banda jail by native authorities.
Banda’s extra superintendent of police (ASP) Laxmi Niwas Mishra had earlier knowledgeable that the case was lodged in opposition to Mukhtar Ansari on the Banda Metropolis Kotwali on Could 18 after discrepancies have been discovered in his date of delivery and the spelling of his title.
The cop added that jail outpost in-charge Dharmendra Singh lodged the FIR underneath Indian Penal Code sections 420 (for dishonest), 467 (for forgery of a helpful safety, will or authority to make or switch any helpful safety), 468 (for forgery for objective of dishonest), and 471 (for utilizing as real a cast doc). He stated that the FIR was lodged in opposition to Mukhtar Ansari and unidentified individuals in this connection and additional probe is underway.
As per the FIR, Ansari’s date of delivery is talked about as 1959 in his voter ID card whereas it’s talked about as 1963 in his Aadhaar and PAN playing cards. Equally, the spelling of his title is talked about as ‘Mukhtar Ansari’ in Aadhaar and voter ID playing cards however it’s ‘Mokhtar Ansari in the PAN card. Ansari’s date of delivery, nonetheless, is talked about as June 30, 1963, in his political data.