Rashtriya Janata Social gathering (RJD) chief Tejashwi Yadav on Thursday raised issues over the occasions resulting in gangster-turned-politician Mukhtar Ansari’s dying and known as on the constitutional establishments to take suo motu cognizance of “such unusual circumstances”.
Mukhtar Ansari died of cardiac arrest at a hospital in Banda in Uttar Pradesh days after his brother and Ghazipur MP Afzal Ansari had alleged that he was being subjected to “gradual poisoning” in jail, a cost denied by the authorities.
Ansari, 63, was a five-time MLA from Mau Sadar and had been behind bars in Uttar Pradesh and Punjab since 2005. He had over 60 felony circumstances pending towards him.
“Unhappy information was obtained in regards to the demise of former UP MLA Shri Mukhtar Ansari. We pray to God to grant peace to the departed soul and power to the bereaved household to bear the loss,” former Bihar deputy CM Tejashwi Yadav mentioned in Hindi on X.
“Just a few days in the past he had complained that he had been poisoned in jail, but it was not taken critically,” Yadav mentioned. “Prima facie, this doesn’t appear justifiable and humane.”
“Constitutional establishments ought to take suo motu cognizance of such unusual circumstances and incidents,” he added.
All India Majilis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) chief Asaduddin Owaisi echoed related sentiments as he pointed to the allegations levelled by Ansari’s brother.
Extending condolences to Mukhtar Ansari’s household, Owaisi mentioned, “The individuals of Ghazipur misplaced their favorite son and brother.”
“Mukhtar Saheb had made critical allegations towards the administration that he was poisoned. Regardless of this, the federal government didn’t pay any consideration to his therapy. Condemnable and regrettable,” he added.
Based on a medical bulletin, Mukhtar Ansari was dropped at the medical faculty round 8.25 pm on Thursday in an unconscious state after he had complained of vomiting. A crew of 9 medical doctors attended to him however he died of cardiac arrest, it said.
Former Bihar MP Pappu Yadav, who joined the Congress just lately, termed Ansari’s dying an “institutional homicide” and demanded a court-monitored probe into it.
“Former MLA Mukhtar Ansari’s institutional homicide… It’s like burying the legislation, Structure, pure justice,” Pappu Yadav mentioned in a publish in Hindi on X.
The Chief Justice of India ought to take “suo motu cognizance of this. There needs to be a court-monitored neutral investigation,” the Congress chief mentioned.
“He was making allegations for a number of days that he was being given gradual poison. His MP brother additionally made this allegation. That is an indelible blot on the nation’s constitutional system,” he added.
Prohibitory orders beneath Part 144 of the CrPC have been imposed throughout the state within the wake of Ansari’s dying and groups of the Central Reserve Police Pressure together with the native police deployed in Banda, Mau, Ghazipur and Varanasi.