The Retired Railway Employee Who Took On Gangster-Politician Mukhtar Ansari

The retired railway employee found that the land belonged to the state government. He promptly filed a case against Mukhtar Ansari and his men.

The stealing of 2,000 bricks was the first trigger. The second was the land grab. Both allegedly by gangster-politician Mukhtar Ansari's men. He had retired in 2003 but there was no rest period.

Harish Chandra Vishwakarma, a former railway employee, filed a land-grab case against regional strongman Mukhtar Ansari the same year. It became the first land-grab case in a long list of cases against the regional heavyweight, who died of a cardiac arrest at a hospital in Banda in Uttar Pradesh on Thursday. He was 63.

"We all have to die one day. It is both your story and mine," Mr Vishwakarma, 82, who lives in Mau, told NDTV philosophically when asked about the gangster's death.