Bharatiya Janata Party leader Dr Alka Rai once again faced the heat for her alleged involvement in the ambulance case used by don-turned-politico Mukhtar Ansari when she and her brother Sheshnath Rai were arrested for a second time on Tuesday.
On Sunday, the Barabanki police registered a case under Gangsters Act against Ansari and 12 others accused for allegedly using an ambulance to travel from Ropar jail to a Mohali court in Punjab. On Tuesday, Alka Rai and her brother Sheshnath Rai were taken into custody by the Barabanki police from Mau in the early hours of Tuesday and were later brought to produce them before a Barabanki court. The case is related to providing an ambulance facility by Rai to Ansari while he was lodged in Ropar Jail in Punjab. Ansari is currently lodged in Banda jail. Dr Rai is a BJP leader and the ambulance was apparently attached to her nursing home in Barabanki. On April 2, 2021, the first case was filed for forgery against Alka Rai, the owner of Shyam Sanjeevani Hospital and Research Centre in Mau and her brother. About three months later, a charge sheet was filed against all accused in the court on July 4, 2021. Alka Rai and her brother were recently released from jail on bail after spending eight months in connection with the same case.
Meanwhile in Azamgarh, the police busted a gang of frauds involved in duping people in lieu of arranging their marriages. Six persons, including three women, were arrested late on Monday night. SP of Azamgarh, Anurag Arya said that acting on a tip-off, Phoolpur police nabbed Ashok Kumar, Shankar, Gulan Bharti of Azamgarh and Aradhana, Rina Yadav aka Zeenat and Puja Kumari of Ambedkar Nagar from Ambari crossing. The gang came on the police radar after Satbir Prajapati of Hisar in Haryana lodged an FIR with Phoolpur police on Sunday alleging that Aradhana had called him for arranging his brother's marriage and charged Rs 60,000 for the service but later provided fake Aadhaar card and marriage certificate to them. Later, the fraudster fled with the jewellery and cash meant for the bride. The police are now trying to collect the criminal history of gang members as they suspect that numerous persons might have been duped by the gang earlier.
