“‘Hamid Ansari used to help gangster Mukhtar Ansari despite being the Vice President’: BJP MLA Sushil Singh”, Opindia, December 18, 2023:
“On 15th December (Friday), a Varanasi MP/MLA court sentenced mafia-turned-politician Mukhtar Ansari to five and a half years in prison for threatening a witness in the kidnapping of the Vishva Hindu Parishad treasurer. The court also imposed a fine of Rs 10,000 on Ansari for threatening Mahavir Prasad Rungta, the brother of coal businessman and VHP treasurer Nand Kishore Rungta, who was kidnapped by Ansari’s henchman from his Varanasi office on 22nd January 1997.
This was the jailed mafia’s seventh conviction since September last year. Ansari, who appeared through video conferencing, was visibly upset after hearing the ruling. Reportedly he began pleading with the judge. When Judge Ujjwal Upadhyay started pronouncing the sentence, Ansari sat with his head down and his hands on his forehead. Following this, he pleaded before the judge, saying, ‘Judge Sahab, please have mercy so that all my sentences proceed simultaneously.’ However, in the decision given by the court, it was already mentioned.
Notably, Nand Kishore Rungta, a coal businessman from Jawahar Nagar of Bhelupur police station area of Varanasi, was murdered after being kidnapped on 22nd January 1997…..”
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