91 cases against Mukhtar Ansari and his family, the first conviction in the Yogi government
Mukhtar Ansari is a criminal against whom no FIR was registered. Even if an FIR was registered in any police station, no one would testify against him. That was why he was free to roam despite a long list of crimes.
Moreover, besides Mukhtar, his entire family is engaged in threats, bullying and extortion. His wife is absconding and several cases have been registered against his brother-in-law and sons. He was convicted for the first time in nearly 40 years under the Yogi government.
Conviction in seven cases: After nearly 40 years, when the Yogi government came to power in Uttar Pradesh and the action against notorious thugs began, Mukhtar Ansari also came under the police radar and was sentenced for the first time. So far he has been convicted in seven different cases.
The first conviction in the Yogi era: It is to be mentioned that the notorious Mukhtar Ansari for the past four decades in the world of crime continued to run. But he was first convicted in September 2022 when Yogi Adityanath was in government in the state. Since then, he has been convicted in seven other cases. 61 cases registered against Mukhtar alone: If we talk about statistics, 61 cases have been registered against Mukhtar alone. Twenty-two of these cases are pending. His wife Afsan Ansari has 11 cases registered against him. Mukhtar’s son Abbas has eight cases registered against him and his younger son Umar six. A case has also been registered against Mukhtar’s daughter-in-law Nikhat. Moreover, seven cases are pending against Mukhtar’s brothers Afzal and three against Sigbatullah.
Conviction in these cases: On September 21, 2022, Mukhtar was convicted for the first time. He was then charged with threatening a government employee. He was sentenced to two years imprisonment on September 23, 2022 in a case of gangster act registered at Hazratganj police station. Ten years imprisonment on December 15, 2022 in the Gangster Act. The Gangster Act carries a ten-year prison sentence on April 29, He was sentenced to seven years in jail for threatening a jailor registered at Alambagh police station and life imprisonment on June 5, 2023 in the controversial Avdhesh Rai murder case. The Rungta family have been sentenced to five years in prison on December 15, 2023, in threatening to blow them up with a bomb.
The whole family in extortion: It should be mentioned that not only Mukhtar Ansari, his entire family is engaged in extortion. His wife Afshan is absconding. He has several criminal cases pending against him. Afshan’s brothers Anwar Shahzad and Sharjeel Raza alias Atif are also members of his gang. Sharjeel Raza is in jail, but he is said to have assets worth crores in Ghazipur. Recently, the police had seized the bank accounts of both the years. This amount was created by bullying, extortion and extortion.
