A courtroom on Saturday sentenced Uttar Pradesh MLA Abbas Ansari to 2 years in jail in a three-year-old case associated to a controversial speech wherein he allegedly threatened authorities officers. Abbas now faces potential disqualification from the Uttar Pradesh Meeting.
Abbas, the MLA from Mau Sadar who was elected on a Suheldev Bharatiya Samaj Get together (SBSP) ticket, made the remarks at a public assembly in the course of the 2022 Meeting election interval. He’s the son of gangster-politician Mukhtar Ansari, who died final 12 months on the Banda jail, the place he was serving his sentence.
“In the identical case, the courtroom has additionally sentenced Mansoor Ahmed Ansari, a neighborhood resident and organiser of the general public assembly. Whereas Abbas has been given two years’ imprisonment, Mansoor has been sentenced to 6 months in jail. A positive has additionally been imposed on each,” mentioned Mau prosecuting officer Harendra Singh.
Singh added that Abbas’s youthful brother, Umar Ansari, can also be an accused within the case, however his file was separated from the others. The trial in opposition to Umar is pending.
Six prosecution witnesses had been examined by the courtroom.
Defence counsel Daroga Singh mentioned a bail utility was moved after the conviction, and the courtroom granted bail to each Abbas and Mansoor.
He added that they’d file an attraction in opposition to the judgment.
On Saturday, Abbas and Mansoor, who’re out on bail, appeared earlier than the courtroom wherein the case is pending.
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They had been convicted below IPC part 171-F (undue affect or personation at an election), 189 (risk of harm to public servant), 153-A (selling enmity between teams on the bottom of faith, race, residence and others ), 505 (statements conducing public mischief), and 120-B (legal conspiracy), mentioned prosecuting officer Singh.
The case was registered by a police personnel, claiming that on March 3, 2022 he together with constables had gone to the Paharpur space and noticed SBSP chief Abbas Ansari and his brother Umar Ansari had gathered a crowd of round 150 individuals. The complainant added that whereas addressing the general public from the stage, the accused threatened to “educate a lesson” to the executive officers of Mau after the election, which is a violation of the mannequin code of conduct.
In 2022, the Enforcement Directorate had arrested Abbas Ansari in reference to a cash laundering case.
Abbas was launched from jail in March this 12 months after being granted bail by the Supreme Court docket.