Gangster-Politician Mukhtar Ansari Gets Life Imprisonment In Fake Arms License Case

An MP/MLA Court in Varanasi has sentenced gangster turned politician Mukhtar Ansari to life imprisonment in a 36-year-old fake arms license case.

NEW DELHI: An MP/MLA court in Varanasi on Wednesday awarded a life sentence to gangster-turned-politician Mukhtar Ansari in a case for obtaining an arms licence by use of forged documents in 1990. The jailed mafia don was convicted in the case under Section 428 (mischief), 467 (forgery of valuable security), 468 (forgery for purpose of cheating), 120B (criminal conspiracy) of the Indian Penal Code and Section 30 of the Arms Act. During the hearing, Ansari participated in court proceedings via video conferencing from Banda jail, where he is currently incarcerated.

MP/MLA Court Varanasi sentences gangster turned politician Mukhtar Ansari to life imprisonment in 36-year-old fake arms license case under sections 466/120B.

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It is alleged that in June 1987, Ansari submitted an application to the then District Magistrate of Ghazipur for a double-barrel gun license. Subsequently, the arms license was acquired using forged signatures of both the District Magistrate and the Superintendent of Police. 

In December 1990, CB-CID exposed this fraudulent activity and a complaint was filed with the police. Based on this complaint, a case was registered at a police station in Ghazipur against five individuals including Mukhtar Ansari.

In December last year, the MP/MLA court sentenced gangster-turned-politician Mukhtar Ansari to five and a half years of rigorous imprisonment and imposed a fine of Rs 10,000 in the case related to threatening a witness in the coal businessman Nand Kishore Rungta murder case.

Ansari was found guilty in the case of threatening Mahavir Prasad Rungta, a witness to the murder of coal businessman Nand Kishore Rungta. Nand Kishore Rungta, a coal businessman from Jawahar Nagar of Bhelupur police station area of Varanasi, was murdered after being kidnapped on January 22, 1997.

Mafia Mukhtar Ansari has so far been sentenced in a total of seven cases, including the 1991 murder case of Awadhesh Rai, in which Ansari was sentenced to life imprisonment in June this year.