Crowd Throngs Mukhtar Ansari’s UP Home, Security Up at Banda Hospital Amid Charges of ‘Don Given Slow Poison’ | Updates

Uttar Pradesh police conducted a flag march in Firozabad on Friday morning, while security was tightened in the district after jailed gangster-turned-politician Mukhtar Ansari died of cardiac arrest at a hospital in Banda.

A large force of police personnel was also deployed outside Banda Medical College Hospital, where Mukhtar died. Meanwhile, a crowd of Ghazipur residents thronged outside the gangster-politician‘s home as cops kept a close vigil.

Mukhtar’s son Umar Ansari alleged that the ‘don-neta’ was “given slow poison”. “Post-mortem will be conducted tomorrow, following which the body will be handed over to us. We will then follow with the further process (cremation). A panel of around five doctors has been made formed (for carrying out the post-mortem),” he said.

Developments Related to Mukhtar Ansari’s Death:

• Visuals from Ghazipur showed that preparations for the funeral of Mukhtar Ansari at Kali Bagh Graveyard.

• According to news agency ANI, a three-member team will conduct a magisterial investigation of gangster’s death. A panel of two doctors will do the post-mortem, which will be video-graphed.

• BSP supremo Mayawati posted in a Hindi message of X (formerly Twitter) said, “The apprehensions and serious allegations made by Mukhtar Ansari’s family regarding his death in jail require a high-level investigation so that the facts of his death can come to light. In such a situation, it is natural for his family to be sad…”