Police file chargesheet against UP MLA Mukhtar Ansari

Last Updated: Wednesday, November 03, 2010, 20:19

Tags: Mukhtar Ansari, Police, MCOCA

New Delhi: Delhi police on Wednesday filed a charge sheet against Uttar Pradesh's independent MLA Mukhtar Ansari in a MCOCA case for allegedly running an organised crime syndicate involved in contract killings and extortion.

In the chargesheet filed before the court of Additional Sessions Judge R K Gauba, the Special Cell of Delhi Police also listed 45 cases pending against the MLA in different parts of the country.

The investigators accused Ansari of running the crime syndicate along with inter-state gangster Munna Bajrangi and others.

This is the supplementary chargesheet against the MLA from Mau constituency in Uttar Pradesh as the main chargesheet had already been filed against Bajrangi and others.

The chargesheet was filed in the link court as the Special Judge appointed under Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act (MCOCA) was on leave.

The court put the chargesheet for taking the cognisance for November 8.

Ansari, who is in judicial custody in BJP MLA Krishnanand Rai murder case since 2005, was brought here on a production warrant from Agra Jail.

He has been interrogated by the Delhi Police's sleuths under their custody for 14 days in May this year.

Delhi police's Special Cell had registered a case under MCOCA against Ansari, Bajrangi and others on November 7 last year on the charge of running an organised crime syndicate here.

Bajrangi, whose real name is Prem Prakash Singh, was arrested from Mumbai by a joint team of the Delhi Police and Uttar Pradesh Police from Mumbai on October 29 last. He is also allegedly involved in more than 10 murder cases across the country.

Ansari had unsuccessfully fought the last Lok Sabha elections from Varanasi constituency against senior BJP leader M M Joshi on a ticket from Bahujan Samaj Party. He was later suspended from the party.

PTI

First Published: Wednesday, November 03, 2010, 20:19