Mukhtar Ansari's wife writes to President Kovind, fears he will be killed during transfer to UP jail

The wife of jailed don-turned politician Mukhtar Ansari has written to President Ram Nath Kovind urging him to ensure adequate security for him when he is transferred from Punjab to Uttar Pradesh.

Afshan Ansari, the wife of jailed gangster-turned-politician Mukhtar Ansari, has written a letter to President Ram Nath Kovind, seeking adequate security for her husband who will soon be transferred from Punjab to UP. In her letter released to the media on Wednesday, Afshan Ansari claimed that her husband, who is a BSP MLA from Mau, is an eyewitness in a case and the accused BJP MLC is threatening to kill him in connivance with the government machinery. Afshan Ansari said she fears that her husband might be killed "in the guise of a fake encounter" during his transfer from Ropar jail in Punjab to Uttar Pradesh's Banda prison.