1st case at 17, 1st conviction at 61
Mukhtar Ansari 's death drew curtains on his over four-decade reign of terror in eastern UP. The first case lodged against him was in 1978 and the first murder case in 1986, but his first conviction happened only in 2022 - such was his terror among complainants and witnesses, reported.
Ansari - whose grandfather was president of Indian National Congress in 1927 - entered the crime world just at the age of 17, and never looked back.
Ansari - whose grandfather was president of Indian National Congress in 1927 - entered the crime world just at the age of 17, and never looked back.
His maternal grandfather Brigadier Mohammad Usman was a decorated Indian Army officer who won Mahavir Chakra posthumously. Ansari earned notoriety due to his rivalry with another mafia don-turned-politician Brijesh Singh in late 1980s. In 1991, he shot Awadhesh Rai, the brother of present UPCC chief Ajay Rai, in Varanasi.
Increased pressure on political parties sympathetic to him led to Ansari's arrest in 2006 after which he never came out of jail. However, his political legacy was passed on to his sons. His brother Afzal is still an MP from Ghazipur, son Abbas an MLA from Mau Sadar, and elder brother's son Suhaib Ansari from Mohammadabad.
Increased pressure on political parties sympathetic to him led to Ansari's arrest in 2006 after which he never came out of jail. However, his political legacy was passed on to his sons. His brother Afzal is still an MP from Ghazipur, son Abbas an MLA from Mau Sadar, and elder brother's son Suhaib Ansari from Mohammadabad.
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