The Uttar Pradesh police brought back Gangster-turned-politician Mukhtar Ansari from Punjab to UP's Banda Jail amid tight security at around 4.30 am on Wednesday morning. Lodged in the Rupnagar jail since January 2019 in connection with an extortion case, the BSP MLA was brought back in an Ambulance.
The five-time MKA, after covering his 900-km journey from Rupnagar to UP, has now been kept in barrack number 16, with heavy security deployed inside as well as outside the jail premises.
It took around two hours to complete the formalities before he was handed over to the UP Police after a medical check up. For the first time in the Banda jail, the surveillance via drone cameras has been installed. It is being said that his Barrack is completely covered by CCTV cameras. Mukhtar will not be given VIP facility in any way.
PK Tripathi - Jailor, Banda Jail while speaking to ABP Ganga informed that medical team examined Ansari before being taken to the barrack. Mukhtar did not make any demand and urged to allow him take bath and sleep. Mobile phones are not allowed. Family too has been denied permission to meet owing to Coronavirus measures.
Acting on a March 26 Supreme Court order, the UP police took custody of the BSP MLA at Rupnagar jail on Tuesday and brought him to the Uttar Pradesh prison to face trials. The Convoy of UP Police, which included four cars and an ambulance, slowed down near Kanpur Dehat due to a jam by stray animal. Before arriving the Banda jail, the convoy stopped for sometime in Satti police station area.
News agency PTI quoted SO of Satti police station Kapil Dubey saying, "Mukhtar used toilet in the Satti police station premises to attend nature''s call. He stayed inside the police station for almost 5 minutes."
According to reports, around 50 cases are registered against Ansari in Uttar Pradesh and other states.
The apex court had said it was being denied on trivial grounds under the guise of medical issues, adding that a convict or an under-trial prisoner, who disobeys the law of the land, cannot oppose his transfer from one prison to another.