Lucknow court rejects anticipatory bail plea of Mukhtar Ansari’s son Abbas Ansari

A local court in Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, on Thursday rejected the anticipatory bail application of Mau Sadar MLA and Mukhtar Ansari’s son Abbas Ansari.

A local court in Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, on Thursday, rejected the anticipatory bail application of Mau Sadar MLA and Mukhtar Ansari’s son, Abbas Ansari.

The court had issued a non-bailable warrant against him in the case registered at the Mahanagar police station in Lucknow in October 2019.

Last month, Mau Superintendent of Police (SP) Avinash Pandey said that Mukhtar Ansari’s wife Afsa Ansari, MLA son Abbas Ansari and brother-in-law were declared fugitives by the district police.

The announcement came after the police raided four places, including Mukhtar Ansari’s ancestral residence of Ghazipur. “His family is absconding,” the SP had said.

During the assembly election earlier this year, Abbas had also made a threatening speech where he asked Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav not to transfer any local officials for the first six months after coming to power as he had to do ‘hisaab-kitaab’. The Uttar Pradesh Police booked him under relevant sections.