Mukhtar Ansari, Jailed Gangster, Died Of Cardiac Arrest

Jailed gangster and politician Mukhtar Ansari dies of cardiac arrest. Ansari was admitted on Thursday at Rani Durgavati Medical College in Banda district. He was a five-time MLA from Uttar Pradesh’s Mau and had been jailed since 2005.

Mukhtar Ansari was 63 years old and lodged in Uttar Pradesh’s Banda jail. He was brought to the hospital in an unconscious state after a complaint of vomiting. As per the reports, a team of nine doctors consulted him, but he died of cardiac arrest.

The government of Uttar Pradesh has imposed prohibitory orders under Section 144 of the Criminal Procedure Code (CrPC), and security has been heightened in Banda, Mau, Ghazipur and Varanasi districts.

Ansari had been hospitalised on March 26 and was discharged after 14 hours. He was diagnosed with UTI (Urinary Tract Infection), he complained of abdominal pain. The doctors advised him to undergo surgery. His brother, Ghazipur MP Afzal Ansari, claimed that he was given poisonous substances in jail. 

Afzal Ansari further stated that Mukhtar was given poison around 40 days ago as well, and recently, on March 19 and March 22, he was again poisoned, due to which his health was deteriorating.

Orders have been raised with the magisterial probe for the investigation of the death of Mukhtar Ansari after his family claimed that he was given poison in jail. The body of the gangster-turned politician will be given to the family for the rites after the postmortem. His funeral will take place in Kali Bagh Graveyard, Ghazipur.

Mukhtar Ansari had over 60 criminal cases pending against him. He was in Punjab prison for two years and later brought back to Banda jail in April 2021. Ansari was on the list of 66 gangsters issued by the Uttar Pradesh Police last year. He had been behind bars since September 2022 for committing crimes in eight cases before different courts in UP.