MAU: Jailed mafia don and MLA, Mukhtar Ansari, has been granted bail after spending almost 17 years in jail.
LUCKNOW: There is finally some good news for beleaguered mafia don-turned-politician Mukhtar Ansari.
LUCKNOW: Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) MLA and jailed mafia don Mukhtar Ansari will be contesting the upcoming Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections on the ticket of Suheldev Bhartiya Samaj Party (SBSP).
BARABANKI(UP): Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) MLA and mafia don Mukhtar Ansari, has expressed apprehension of threat to his life inside the Banda jail where he is presently lodged.
LUCKNOW: Bahujan Samaj Party President Mayawati on Friday announced that her party would not give tickets to criminals and mafia.In a tweet, she said that her party would not give ticket to jailed mafia don Mukhtar Ansari from the Mau Assembly seat. Mukhtar had won the seat in 2017 on a BSP ticket.
LUCKNOW: The driver and aide of mafia don and Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) MLA Mukhtar Ansari, has been arrested by a team of Uttar Pradesh Special Task Force (UPSTF) in Lucknow.
BARABANKI(Uttar Pradesh):Jailed Bahujan Samaj Party MLA and mafia don, Mukhtar Ansari, has pleaded before a Barabanki court for a television set in his barrack.
BANDRA: (Uttar Pradesh): A prisoner from the high security Banda District Jail has been reported missing, Circle Officer (CO) City, Rakesh Singh, said here on Monday.
BANDA: Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) MLA and mafia don Mukhtar Ansari has tested positive for Covid-19 in Banda jail.
LUCKNOW: Two barracks in the Banda jail have been converted into an isolation cell for mafia don and Bahujan Samaj Party MLA Mukhtar Ansari, who will be lodged here after he is brought back to Uttar Pradesh from Punjab.
LUCKNOW: A special police team left for Punjab on Monday to take custody of mafia don and Bahujan Samaj Party MLA Mukhtar Ansari and bring him back from the Ropar jail to Uttar Pradesh's Banda jail.
VARANASI: In a statement that is bound to create controversy, UP minister Anand Swarup Shukla has termed jailed mafia don and BSP MLA Mukhtar Ansari as an 'Islamic terrorist'.
LUCKNOW: Controversies, one after another, seem to be chasing mafia don and BSP MLA Mukhtar Ansari. Now it is the ambulance that took the jailed don to Punjab's Mohali court that has raised a storm.
NEW DELHI: In a big victory for the Uttar Pradesh government, the Supreme Court on Friday allowed transfer of gangster-turned-MLA Mukhtar Ansari from a Punjab jail to Banda jail in UP.
CHANDIGARH: BJP National General Secretary Tarun chugh today down heavily on the Amarinder Singh government for patronising gangster-turned-politician Mukhtar Ansari evade appearance in courts in Uttar Pradesh.
VARANASI(Uttar Pradesh):The politics between the Congress and the BJP over mafia don and BSP MLA Mukhtar Ansari appears to be getting murkier by the day.The BJP has been accusing the Congress government in Punjab of shielding Ansari. BJP MLA Alka Rai has even written several letters to Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, seeking her intervention in the matter.
LUCKNOW: A Varanasi resident, Sudhir Singh, has filed a plea before the Speaker of the Uttar Pradesh Assembly, seeking disqualification of jailed Bahujan Samaj Party MLA Mukhtar Ansari.
LUCKNOW:Jailed mafia don and BSP MLA Mukhtar Ansari's wife, Afsha Ansari, has written a letter to President Ram Nath Kovind, apprehending a threat to her husband's life and urging him to ensure that his trial is conducted via video conferencing.
LUCKNOW:BJP MLA Alka Rai, widow of slain MLA Krishnanand Rai, has written an emotional letter to Congress General Secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, urging her not to help BSP MLA Mukhtar Ansari.
VARANASI:Five arms licences of the relatives and henchmen of jailed mafia don and MLA Mukhtar Ansari have been suspended and the arms have been deposited in police stations of Ghazipur district.
NEW DELHI: The Delhi High Court on Tuesday admitted a plea challenging the acquittal of gangster-turned-politician Mukhtar Ansari and others in the 2005 murder case of Uttar Pradesh BJP MLA Krishnanand Rai.