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Topic: Mukhtar Ansari

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.

Naroda Gam to Atiq killing is a straight line. What you get is India’s ‘thok do’ culture

Total denial of justice, as in the cases of Naroda Gam, the Jaipur bombings & gangsters like Atiq Ahmed, is why faith in the system has fallen so low. It's what fuels vigilante culture.

Atiq Ahmed was shipped out of UP. But this is how he ran his empire from Gujarat jail

Yogi kept sending Atiq Ahmed and Mukhtar Ansari—2 of UP’s most dreaded bahubalis—to jail in different states. But he couldn’t stop their mafia raj.

ED arrests UP gangster-turned-politician Mukhtar Ansari in money laundering case

Ansari, a five-time former MLA, was lodged in a jail at Banda in Uttar Pradesh. The 59-year-old was questioned by the ED in this case last year.

Mixed results for UP’s bahubalis: Azam Khan leads, loss for Vijay Mishra, Dhananjay Singh

Azam Khan is leading from Rampur by a huge margin & his son Abdullah Azam wins from Suar. Mukhtar Ansari’s son Abbas leads from Mau.

In UP’s Mau, gangster Mukhtar Ansari’s sport-shooter son is using ‘clean’ image to gun for votes

Mau constituency, which goes to vote on 7 March, has been gangster-turned-politician Mukhtar Ansari’s stronghold since 1996. He has won the seat five consecutive times.

On Camera

Stop targeting Galgotias University students. Focus on politicians instead

Going through their Instagrams and dissecting their ‘statements’ is not the astute political commentary you think it is—it is time for us to back off from targeting 20-year-olds.

High capacity usage, fresh borrowings & new orders — why FY25 could be a big year for pvt investment

Companies are borrowing more from banks and public. Economists say high capacity utilisation & growing new orders could set stage for renewed investment push by India Inc.

China builds road through Shaksgam Valley, India registers protest

New Delhi has, in past, too, objected to Chinese construction activities in Shaksgam Valley. Work in this strategic region gathered pace after the 2017 Doklam stand-off.

Frontrunner is letting the challenger define this poll campaign. Modi still hasn’t found a big theme

A theme has not yet emerged for BJP & people see lack of a contest, which makes it unexciting. For all these reasons, 2024 is turning out to be an unexpectedly theme-less election.