First, judicial punishment was imposed on Mafia Atiq and his brother Ashraf, then now second famous mafia Mukhtar Ansari and his brother Afzal Ansari were punished by law. This means that now the musclemen have started being punished in Uttar Pradesh. In the same sequence, Ghazipur’s MP-MLA court sentenced Mukhtar Ansari, a five-time MLA, to 10 years’ imprisonment and a fine of Rs 5 lakh under the Gangster Act, while his elder brother and MP Afzal Ansari was sentenced to 4 years’ imprisonment and a fine of Rs 5 lakh in the same case. By imposing a fine of lakhs, it proved that if the government is determined, no matter how clever and powerful the criminals are, they can also be punished by the courts.
The punishment given to the Ansari brothers on Saturday is also more important because before the formation of the Yogi government in the state in 2017, both these brothers were connected in one way or the other with the ruling parties of the state, ie SP and BSP, due to which the judicial process in the courts was smooth. Was not able to walk properly. Even today Mukhtar Ansari’s son Abbas Ansari is an MLA who was heard saying in an election meeting during the election that he has talked to brother i.e. Akhilesh Yadav that after the formation of the government, the officers will not be transferred, but they will be counted Revenge will be taken. It should not be surprising that if Akhilesh’s government was formed in the state, Abbas Ansari would have also become a minister, but nowadays he too is facing the punishment of his crimes in jail.
Mukhtar is not an MLA these days but Afzal is a BSP MP and now after being sentenced to 4 years, his parliament membership is certain. Afzal reached the Parliament in 2019 by defeating Manoj Sinha, the current Lieutenant Governor of Jammu and Kashmir. Both of them have been convicted by the Additional Sessions Court after trial under the Gangster Act in 2007 for the murder of then MLA Vrishnanand Rai in 2005 and kidnapping of Nand Kishore Rungta.
Surprisingly, Mukhtar and Afzal’s grandfather Dr. Mukhtar Ahmed Ansari was the President of the All India Congress Committee in 1926-27 and their maternal grandfather Brigadier Mohammad Usman was martyred in Nowshera in 1948 while fighting the Pakistan Army. His uncle Hamid Ansari has been Vice President twice after retiring from foreign service. Despite being from such a well-to-do and elite family, the Ansari family, being a symbol of fear and terror, continued to persecute people not only in the eastern districts of Uttar Pradesh, but in the whole of Uttar Pradesh, in whatever crime they indulged in, they achieved success. There was a time when Mukhtar had conspired to kill today’s Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath in Azamgarh too, but somehow he saved his life.
However, now neither the courts nor the witnesses nor the family members of the victims are afraid in Uttar Pradesh because the state government and the police have decided that the mafia rule will not be allowed to continue under any circumstances. This is the reason why mafia and goons, no matter how dreaded and powerful they are, are being punished by the courts and now they are also realizing the state’s non-existence. This is called the rule of law. (sp)
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