Ambulance Mystery: Vehicle Carrying Mukhtar Ansari Had UP Number Plate; Police & Jail Authorities Deny Providing It

Amid tight security arrangements, Ansari was taken to court in a wheelchair. He was sent back to Punjab's Ropar jail in an ambulance after the appearance.

Gangster-turned-politician Mukhtar Ansari. (File Photo/ Getty)

Chandigarh: Days after Supreme Court ordered transfer of gangster-turned-politician Mukhtar Ansari from Ropar jail in Punjab to Banda prison in Uttar Pradesh, the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) MLA was brought to Mohali court under tight security on Wednesday.

However, in a interesting turn of events, the ambulance which was used to bring Ansari to court had a UP number plate.

Jail ADGP Praveen Sinha claims that it was Police force which arranged the ambulance, however, Rupnagar SSP and SHO rejected the claims made by Sinha and said that ambulance was not provided by police nor the hospital has any ambulance which has UP number.

Amid tight security arrangements, Ansari was taken to court in a wheelchair. He was sent back to Punjab's Ropar jail in an ambulance after the appearance.

When ABP News asked Jail DSP that was Ansari was being transported in ambulance with UP number plate, he ducked the questions stating that he is on leave.

Ansari's stint in Ropar jail has creating a stir and Opposition has raised eyebrow on the ruling Captain Amarinder Singh government in Punjab for the same. It is being said that the ambulance with UP number plate usually stays in Ropar jail and is bullet proof. 

The opposition Shiromani Akali Dal had accused the Punjab government of giving "political shelter" to Ansari by keeping him in the Ropar jail as a "state guest" on "trumped-up charges" .

Sources close to the development also informed that it is Ansari's men who drive the ambulance. 

The Supreme Court had recently directed the Punjab government to hand over the custody of Ansari to the Uttar Pradesh Police, saying it was being denied on trivial grounds under guise of medical issues.

The court had said the custody of Ansari, an MLA from Mau constituency, be handed over to Uttar Pradesh within two weeks so as to lodge him in Banda district jail in Uttar Pradesh.

Recently, UP government had informed that more than 30 FIRs and more than 14 criminal trials including heinous crimes of murder and under the Gangster Act are pending against Ansari in various MP/MLA courts.