The Allahabad high court set aside Ghazipur MP-MLA court order sentencing Samajwadi Party MP Afzal Ansari for four years in Krishnanand Rai murder case
Fielded by the BJP, Rai is facing Afzal Ansari, the elder brother of don-politician Mukhtar Ansari, who died due to cardiac arrest in Banda jail on March 28.
On Tuesday, the counsels representing Afzal Ansari, senior advocate GS Chaturvedi and Upendra Upadhyay argued that there were total seven accused in Krishna Nand Rai murder case but only three, including Afzal Ansari, his brother Mukhtar and another , who were politically active, were selectively booked under the Gangsters’ Act.
Ansari was BSP MP from Ghazipur Lok Sabha constituency and was disqualified after Ghazipur MP/MLA court sentenced him to four years of prison in a 2007 Gangster case