New Delhi: A Delhi court on Saturday issued a
fresh notice to a senior Uttar Pradesh jail officer over the
failure of prison authorities to produce Independent MLA
Mukhtar Ansari before it in connection with a MCOCA case.
Additional Sessions Judge Madhu Jain did not find the
response of the IG (Jail) to the court`s previous notice
failure of the authorities to produce Ansari as satisfactory
and issued a fresh notice against him for January four.
Earlier, the UP Jail official had sent a response to the
court`s notice saying since the legislator was indisposed they
were unable to produce him before the court.
The DIG (Jail), who had appeared earlier before the
court, failed to explain the reasons for the prison
authorities` repeated failure to produce Ansari.
Uttar Pradesh prison authorities could not produce
Ansari, the MLA from Mau who is in Ghazipur jail, in
connection with the murder of BJP MLA Krishnanand Rai in 2005,
before the court, citing his ill-health.
Ansari, who had unsuccessfully contested the last Lok
Sabha elections on a BSP ticket from Varanasi seat, was not
produced in the court despite production warrant as jail
authorities claimed he was suffering from gastro-enteritis.
Delhi Police invoked MCOCA (Maharashtra Control of
Organised Crime Act) against inter-state gangster Munna
Bajrangi, arrested last month from Mumbai, and Ansari for
running an organised crime syndicate here.
Ansari is wanted in a MCOCA case for being associated
with Bajrangi in running the organised crime syndicate in the
country.
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.
According to the police, Bajrangi is also allegedly
involved in more than 10 murder cases across the country.
PTI
