The Lucknow bench of the Allahabad excessive court docket has granted bail to former superintendent of Chitrakoot district jail, who was arrested for allegedly facilitating the unlawful assembly between Mau MLA Abbas Ansari (son of gangster-turned-politician Mukhtar Ansari) and his spouse Nikhat Bano.
A single-judge bench of Justice Subhash Vidyarthi accepted the bail plea of Ashok Kumar Sagar on August 29. He was in jail since March 6 this 12 months.
Showing on behalf of the applicant, advocate Amit Chaudhary argued earlier than the court docket that every one expenses levelled towards the jail superintendent have been fabricated and he was wrongly implicated within the case.
“Deputy jailor Chandrakala was in-charge of facilitating the assembly of jail inmates and guests,” stated Chaudhary. “Jailor Santosh Kumar was in-charge of the barrack by which Abbas Ansari was lodged,” he added.
“Nevertheless, deputy jailor Piyush Pandey was in cost as Santosh Kumar was on go away from February 8, 2023. Pandey was made a witness within the case,” Chaudhary identified.
Nikhat was arrested on February 11 this 12 months from the VVIP visitor room adjoining to the jailor’s workplace contained in the Chitrakoot jail.
Throughout investigation, it was found that she used to meet Abbas contained in the jail for 3 to 4 hours each second or third day. Her visits have been facilitated by native jail authorities, and never logged within the jail register.
Abbas Ansari was relocated to the Kasganj district jail after the incident got here to gentle.
Seven individuals have been arrested within the case, together with Nikhat. The Supreme Courtroom granted her bail on August 11.
Abbas’ father, gangster-politician Mukhtar Ansari, is serving a jail sentence and faces trial in a number of circumstances as half of a crackdown ordered by chief minister Yogi Adityanath.
Abbas was himself arrested by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) in November 2022 in reference to a cash laundering case.