With the sleuths of the Special Task Force (STF) and Prayagraj police already hunting for Shaista Parveen, wife of slain mafia-turned-politician Atiq Ahmad, the Mau police have tightened the noose around jailed gangster Mukhtar Ansari's wife Afshan.
The police have declared a reward of Rs 25,000 on gangster-turned-politician Mukhtar Ansari's wife, Afshan Ansari, after declaring her ‘absconding’.
"A reward of Rs 25,000 has been declared on the arrest of Afshan Ansari, wife of Mukhtar Ansari, who is wanted in a case registered under the Gangsters Act at police station Dakshin Tola. She has been on the run and therefore the reward has been announced," Additional Superintendent of Police at Mau, Mahesh Singh Attri, informed the local media persons.
The reward was announced on the instructions of Superintendent of Police, Mau, Avinash Pandey.
A case was registered against Afshan Ansari, who has been absconding for a long time. Warrants have also been issued against Mukhtar and Afshan in connection with the case.
Earlier, DIG (Varanasi) Akhilesh Chaurasiya had announced a reward of Rs 50,000 on Afshan. With this, she carries a total reward of Rs 75,000 for information leading to her arrest.
Earlier in January this year, the police had registered a murder case against Mukhtar Ansari in connection to the 2001 'Usri Chatti' gang war incident. A case under Section 302 of the Indian Penal Code was registered against Ansari at Mohammadabad police station in Ghazipur.
Earlier on January 18, the Allahabad High Court had dismissed the March 15 order of the Ghazipur MP/MLA court, which allowed Ansari to be kept in a superior-class jail in Banda. While giving the order, the court had said the order of the special court was without jurisdiction, and gangster, dreaded criminal bahubali Ansari was not legally entitled to get a superior class in jail.
Earlier on December 15 last year, Ansari and his aide Bhim Singh were sentenced to 10 years’ imprisonment by the Gangster Court in Ghazipur in five cases related to murder and attempted murder. The cases include the murder of constable Raghuvansh Singh and a murderous assault on an additional superintendent of police of Ghazipur among others.
On September 21, the Lucknow bench of Allahabad High Court had convicted Mukhtar Ansari and sentenced him for threatening jailer SK Awasthi and pointing a pistol at him. The case dates to 2003 when Lucknow district prison jailer SK Awasthi lodged an FIR saying that he was threatened to order a search of the people who came to meet Ansari in prison. On September 23, the Lucknow bench of the Allahabad High Court sentenced him to five years in a case registered in 1999 under the Gangster Act. The court had also imposed a fine of Rs 50,000 on Mukhtar in this 23-year-old case.
