NEW DELHI: Umar Ansari, son of gangster-politician Mukhtar Ansari, on Friday alleged that his father’s death was a “planned murder” and demanded that the post-mortem examination be conducted by a panel of doctors from Delhi AIIMS. In a letter to Banda district magistrate, Umar Ansari said that his father had made a call from jail PCO on March 28 at 3.30pm in which he had claimed that he had been given poison.”Umar I will not survive,” he had said in the call.
63-year-old Ansari was brought to the Rani Durgavati Medical College in Banda from the district jail in “an unconscious state” on Thursday evening and died at the hospital following a cardiac arrest.
In his letter, Umar said that his father had on March 21 informed the court about slow poisoning by jail authorities and had said that his condition had deteriorated. “On March 26, when the condition of my father worsened he was admitted in the ICU of Banda medical college hospital. However, when I went to the hospital I was not allowed to meet him,” Umar writes in the letter.
“Despite his condition, the authorities did not let him stay in hospital for proper treatment and he was sent back to solitary confinement in the jail,” Umar claimed.
Umar alleged that neither the jail administration nor the local administration informed him yesterday about the serious condition of his father and he came to know about it through media. “When I reached medical college, I was told that my father had died before reaching the hospital,” Umar said.
Umar said he did not trust the local administration and local doctors anymore and demanded that his father’s post-mortem be done by doctors from AIIMS Delhi.
Meanwhile, a chief judicial magistrate’s court in Uttar Pradesh’s Banda on Friday ordered a judicial inquiry into the death of Mukhtar Ansari. Banda Chief Judicial Magistrate (CJM) Bhagwan Das Gupta appointed Garima Singh, Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate (MP-MLA Court Banda) as the investigating officer in the case, the official said.
The CJM has sought the probe report within a month.
63-year-old Ansari was brought to the Rani Durgavati Medical College in Banda from the district jail in “an unconscious state” on Thursday evening and died at the hospital following a cardiac arrest.
In his letter, Umar said that his father had on March 21 informed the court about slow poisoning by jail authorities and had said that his condition had deteriorated. “On March 26, when the condition of my father worsened he was admitted in the ICU of Banda medical college hospital. However, when I went to the hospital I was not allowed to meet him,” Umar writes in the letter.
“Despite his condition, the authorities did not let him stay in hospital for proper treatment and he was sent back to solitary confinement in the jail,” Umar claimed.
Umar alleged that neither the jail administration nor the local administration informed him yesterday about the serious condition of his father and he came to know about it through media. “When I reached medical college, I was told that my father had died before reaching the hospital,” Umar said.
Umar said he did not trust the local administration and local doctors anymore and demanded that his father’s post-mortem be done by doctors from AIIMS Delhi.
Meanwhile, a chief judicial magistrate’s court in Uttar Pradesh’s Banda on Friday ordered a judicial inquiry into the death of Mukhtar Ansari. Banda Chief Judicial Magistrate (CJM) Bhagwan Das Gupta appointed Garima Singh, Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate (MP-MLA Court Banda) as the investigating officer in the case, the official said.
The CJM has sought the probe report within a month.
