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UP’s jailed gangster-politician Mukhtar Ansari gets life for 1991 murder of Awadhesh Rai

Rai was shot dead on 3 August that year in front of the Varanasi house of his brother and former Congress MLA Ajay Rai.

Jailed gangster-politician Mukhtar Ansari guilty in 1991 murder of Congressman Awadhesh Rai

Rai was shot dead on 3 August that year in front of the Varanasi house of his brother and former Congress MLA Ajay Rai.

This ex-DSP couldn’t bring Mukhtar Ansari down. Now he’s watching Yogi grind his empire to dust

Shailendra Singh’s dogged pursuit of Mukhtar Ansari cost him everything he had worked for all his life. But the events that led to his resignation in 2004 are playing out now.

Mukhtar Ansari acquitted of ‘criminal conspiracy’ in 2009 case. Another Gangster Act verdict on 20 May

The acquittal, however, spells small relief for the gangster, who has been lodged at UP’s Banda jail since 2015. Since September 2022, he has been convicted in four cases.

Atiq dead, Mukhtar convicted, but sons and ‘fugitive’ wives now in police crosshairs in Yogi’s UP

With a manhunt on for Atiq Ahmed’s wife Shaista Parveen and Mukhtar Ansari’s spouse Afshan, a look at some ‘mafia’ family members currently in the radar of the UP police.

As Mukhtar & Afzal Ansari are convicted, story of a UP power clan & its fall from nationalism to gangsterism

Mukhtar Ansari was convicted under Gangster Act by a special court today along with his MP brother Afzal. The clan’s decline from heroism to crime & its three-decade journey littered with bodies.

Ghazipur court convicts Mukhtar Ansari under Gangsters Act, sentences him to 10 yrs in jail

The verdict comes four years after a CBI court acquitted Mukhtar and his brother Afzal in the 2005 murder of BJP MLA Krishnanand Rai. 

Gangsters Act: The controversial law behind Yogi govt’s crackdown on dons like Mukhtar Ansari

Gangster-turned-politician Mukhtar Ansari's 10-yr sentence in a case under the Gangsters Act brings spotlight back on the law, its alleged misuse, and lacunae.

Mukhtar Ansari convicted in 2007 Gangsters Act case, sentenced to 10 years imprisonment

'I believe in the judiciary. Rule of Goondas, Mafias have ended,' Alka Rai, wife of late BJP MLA Krishnanand Rai who was murdered in Ghazipur in 2005, said.

On Camera

Top 10 picks of Serendipity Art Festival 2025 by Rohit Chawla

Through film, textile, scent, sound, and gesture, spectators are invited to descend into an immersive environment where inherited knowledge seeps through material and form.

India’s merchandise exports to US rising month-on-month despite Trump tariffs, govt data shows

November exports to the US saw 10% growth from the previous month. Overall, in the first 8 months this fiscal, the merchandise exports to the US touched has touched $59bn.

US clears $686-mn package to breathe fresh life into Pakistani F-16s

Of the total package, $649 million will be utilised for additional hardware, software, and support services, and the remaining for Major Defence Equipment (MDE).

India’s top airline just handed sarkar the keys. That’s IndiGo’s real ‘crime’

Don’t blame misfortune. This is colossal incompetence and insensitivity. So bad, heads would have rolled even in the old PSU-era Indian Airlines and Air India.