Relief For Disqualified MP Afzal Ansari, Allahabad High Court Grants Him Bail

The Allahabad High Court, however, has refused to freeze the four-year jail term of Afzal Ansari.

Gangster-turned politician Mukhtar Ansari's brother Afzal Ansari --  disqualified as a member of the Lok Sabha on Monday after he was convicted and sentenced to four-year imprisonment in a kidnapping-and-murder case -- has received relief from the Allahabad High Court. The court has ordered that Afzal Ansari be released on bail.

The court, however, has refused to freeze the four-year jail term.

Afzal Ansari, a Lok Sabha member from Ghazipur, was sentenced to four years in jail by an MP/MLA court on Saturday. But his Lok Sabha membership was canceled in May due to the conviction by a court in Ghazipur.