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By India Today News Desk: A UP court on Saturday sentenced gangster-politician Mukhtar Ansari and his brother Afzal Ansari, also a BSP MP, in a 2007 case. While Mukhtar Ansari was sentenced to 10 years in jail, Afzal Asari was awarded a 4-year jail sentence.
Afzal, a BSP MP from Ghazipur parliamentary constituency, is likely to lose his Lok Sabha membership following the sentencing. According to the Representation of the People Act, any member will be disqualified if convicted and sentenced to imprisonment for two years or more.
Recently, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi, Samajwadi Party leader Azam Khan and BJP’s Vikram Saini lost their MP status under the provisions of the same Act.
In 2007, a case was filed under the Gangsters Act against the Ansari brothers and in 2022, prima facie charges were framed against the two. After hearing the arguments of both sides, the court sentenced the Ansari brothers in the 2007 case.
Mukhtar Ansari is presently lodged in Banda jail. He had been an MLA for five consecutive terms from Mau Sadar assembly seat in neighbouring Mau district of Uttar Pradesh. The gangster-politician did not contest the 2022 Assembly elections and his seat was won by his son, Abbas Ansari, from the Suheldev Bharatiya Samaj Party (SBSP).
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