The Chief Judicial Magistrate (CJM) of Banda district in Uttar Pradesh on Friday ordered a judicial inquiry into the death of gangster-turned-politician Mukhtar Ansari who died in Banda on Thursday. The court directed the Banda MP/MLA court judge Garima Singh to submit the report within a month to the CJM, Banda.
Ms. Singh, who is the Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate, will lead a three-member team entrusted to conduct the magisterial investigation into the death of the five-time former MLA. The late Ansari, who represented the Mau Sadar Assembly seat between 1996-2022, had been behind bars in Uttar Pradesh and Punjab since 2005.
Meanwhile, the post-mortem examination was conducted by a panel of five doctors in Banda Medical College and the body was handed over to the family. The last rites will be held at Mohammadabad in Ghazipur district.
Last rites will take place at Kalibag graveyard in Yusufpur, Mohammadabad.
Ansari died of cardiac arrest within hours after he was rushed to the Rani Durgawati Medical College in Banda district on March 28. “At around 8:25 p.m. convicted/undertrial prisoner Mukhtar Ansari, son of Subhanullah, was brought by jail staff to the emergency department at Rani Durgawati Medical College in an unconscious state. The patient was treated by a team of nine doctors and given all possible medical facilities, but despite all the attempts for recovery, the patient died due to cardiac arrest,” the medical bulletin said.
