‘Mukhtar Ansari is a martyr’: Owaisi triggers a row in Varanasi
Speaking at a public meeting, the AIMIM chief called PM Modi anti-Muslim and called out the SP and Congress for not speaking for the community.
Speaking at a public meeting, the AIMIM chief called PM Modi anti-Muslim and called out the SP and Congress for not speaking for the community.
Death of Mafia don Mukhtar Ansari during judicial custody in Banda jail on March 28 and the allegations of his family that he was poisoned, seems to have gone on the back burner.
Speaking at an Eid Milap programme in Hyderabad, the AIMIM floor leader in the Telangana Assembly sounded prophetic when he asked his supporters to imagine a situation where there is no AIMIM and the Owaisi brothers.
Maurya, who reached here on Sunday to give election mantra to BJP social media wing, was talking to media persons.
The Senior Superintendent of Banda jail, where gangster-politician Mukhtar Ansari was lodged before he died last week, received a death threat on his phone, the police said.
This will be the eighth conviction of mafia don Mukhtar Ansari in the recent past including life term in the murder of Awadhesh Rai in Varanasi.
A non-bailable arrest warrant was issued against Umar Ansari by the court in three cases.
During the hearing, Mukhtar pleaded through video conferencing from Banda jail that he has nothing to do with the crime as he has been in jail since 2005.
The properties had a book value of Rupees 73,43,900 and were acquired by Abbas Ansari at an undervalued consideration of Rupees 71.94 lakh as against the government rate of Rupees 6.23 crore.
The court did not stay the 10-year punishment, for which hearing will continue, although it stayed the fine imposed on him.