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Watch: Don Mukhtar Ansari gets life in jail for Awadhesh Rai murder; brother Ajay Rai says 'result 32 years of struggle'
Abhishek Awasthi •Reportedly, the entire case against him was heard by the court on the basis of photocopies since the case diary went missing, making it the first case where the verdict has been pronounced on the basis of duplicate papers
Jailed Gangster-politician Mukhtar Ansari convicted in Awadhesh Rai murder case
Fp Staff •A Varanasi court on Monday convicted gangster-politician Mukhtar Ansari in the murder of Congress leader Awadhesh Rai more than 30 years ago. A five-term MLA, Ansari is already serving a 10-year jail term in another kidnapping and murder case
BJP MLA kidnapping & murder case: Mukhtar Ansari gets 10 yrs in jail, his brother Afzal sentenced to 4 yrs imprisonment
Fp Staff •The verdict could lead to Afzal Ansari losing his Lok Sabha membership. According to the Representation of the People Act, any member will be disqualified if convicted and sentenced to imprisonment for two years or more
After Atiq Ahmed, spotlight turns on Mukhtar Ansari as IT Department serves notice for benami property worth Rs127 crore
Fp Staff •The Income Tax Department has served notice to mafia-turned-politician Mukhtar Ansari regarding a plot of land worth Rs127 crore in UP's Ghazipur
UP: Mukhtar Ansari's son Abbas arrested by ED in money laundering case
•According to the officials, Abbas Ansari, 30, was arrested after a long questioning session at the federal agency's office in Prayagraj, Uttar Pradesh
Mukhtar Ansari sentenced to 7 years of imprisonment for threatening a jailer
•The Lucknow bench of Allahabad High Court on Wednesday sentenced Mukhtar Ansari to seven years in prison for threatening a jailer by pointing a pistol at him.
Former UP MLA Mukhtar Ansari gets two years in prison for threatening jailer
•The case dates to 2003 when Lucknow district prison jailer SK Awasthi lodged an FIR with Alambagh police alleging that he was threatened for ordering a search of the people who came to meet Ansari in prison.
Matrabhumi Yojana: Yogi Adityanath partners with people in building public infrastructures
Fp Staff •Yogi Adityanath on Thursday said that through the Yojana, a person wanting to construct roads, procession house, community building in the name of his ancestor will get 50 per cent of funding by Uttar Pradesh government
ED raids in UP, Delhi in money laundering case against Mukhtar Ansari
•Ansari is under the ED scanner in connection with at least 49 criminal cases booked against him including those on charges of land grabbing, murder and extortion.
Over six crore worth of land seized in case against gangster Mukhtar Ansari
•The two plots worth 6.30 crore, seized under the Gangsters Act, are registered in Ansari's wife Afshan Ansari's name, and were purchased with money earned illegally