Gangster Mukhtar Ansari Sentenced Life Imprisonment In 36-Year-Old Fake Arms License Case, Here's All About It

Gangster-turned-politician Mukhtar Ansari, who has around 60 pending cases against him in various states, including Uttar Pradesh, Punjab, and New Delhi, has been convicted in at least seven cases.

On Wednesday (13 March), he was sentenced to life imprisonment in a 36-year-old fake arms license case by a special MP/MLA court in Varanasi as per a report by Hindustan Times.

The court had convicted him on Tuesday (12 March) and set 13 March for pronouncing the quantum of punishment. Ansari appeared in court through video conferencing from Banda jail, where he is currently held.

The case dates back to 10 June 1987, when Ansari applied for a double-barrel gun license from the district magistrate in Ghazipur.

The license was obtained using fake signatures of the district magistrate and the superintendent of police. When this fraud was exposed on 4 December 1990, a case was registered against Ansari and four others at Mohadabad police station in Ghazipur.

The charge sheet was sent to the court in 1997, naming Ansari and another individual who died during the case proceedings.

In the recent development, the MP/MLA court sentenced Ansari to five and a half years of rigorous imprisonment and imposed a fine of Rs 10,000 in a case related to threatening a witness in the murder case of coal businessman Nand Kishore Rungta.