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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
'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.
For an industry globally classified as hazardous, protections such as health insurance and a provident fund for workers are necessities. In Sivakasi, they remain elusive.
The industry forecasts exports are set to grow 16% in 2025-26, boosted by surplus domestic production and a drive to push into 26 underserved global markets with strong potential.
Indigenisation level will progressively increase up to 60 percent with key sub-assemblies, electronics and mechanical parts being manufactured locally.
It is a brilliant, reasonably priced, and mostly homemade aircraft with a stellar safety record; only two crashes in 24 years since its first flight. But its crash is a moment of introspection.
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