New Delhi: A Delhi court on Monday reprimanded
Uttar Pradesh Jail authorities for failing to produce
independent MLA Mukhtar Ansari before it and issued a fresh
production warrant against him in a case registered under the
stringent law against organized crime MCOCA.
Additional Sessions Judge Madhu Jain took a serious view
of a UP Police constable producing a report on behalf of the
jail authorities stating that the accused could not be
produced due to his gastro-enteritis problem.
The court warned the constable, who represented the
Ghazipur jail, where Ansari is lodged at present, of strict
action for submitting the report without being properly
forwarded by the authorities concerned.
"If the accused is not produced on next date of hearing,
none other than the Jail Superintendent and Jail doctor should
appear before the court to intimate it," ASJ Jain said,
issuing a fresh warrant against Ansari for November 23.
The court had on November nine issued a production
warrant for today on an application submitted by the Delhi
police alleging Ansari, who had unsuccessfully contested last
Lok Sabha elections in Varanasi constituency against BJP
leader M M Joshi, was running an organised crime syndicate
with Munna Bajrangi in the national capital.
Ansari, a legislator from Mau in UP, is now in jail in
connection with the murder BJP MLA Krishnanand Rai in 2005.
Delhi police had invoked MCOCA (Maharashtra Control
of Organised Crime Act) against Bajrangi and Ansari.
Bajrangi, whose real name is Prem Prakash Singh, was
arrested from Mumbai by a joint team of the Delhi Police and
Uttar Pradesh Police on October 29.
The police invoked charges against Bajrangi, who hails
from Jaunpur district in Uttar Pradesh, under MCOCA for
allegedly running a crime syndicate and took him into their
custodial from the court till December seven.
According to the police, Bajrangi is allegedly involved
in more than 10 murder cases across the country, including
that of Krishnanand Rai in 2005.
Ansari is wanted in a MCOCA case for being associated
with Bajrangi to run the organised crime syndicate.
Bureau Report
First Published: Tuesday, November 17, 2009, 00:22