Hours after the ruling National Democratic Alliance (NDA) reached a seat-sharing agreement in Bihar for the upcoming Lok Sabha polls, Lovely Anand, wife of gangster turned politician Anand Mohan, joined the Janata Dal (United) on Monday.
The gangster-turned-politician Mukhtar Ansari on Wednesday was awarded life imprisonment in a three-decade-old case by the MP/MLA Court in Varanasi. Additionally, the court has imposed a substantial fine of Rs 2 lakh and 2 thousand on the gangster.
The Supreme Court on Friday adjourned the hearing on gangster-turned-politician Mukhtar Ansari's son Abbas Ansari's plea challenging the Allahabad High Court order rejecting his bail plea in an arms license case.
The Supreme Court on Thursday granted interim relief to Umar Ansari, son of gangster-turned-politician Mukhtar Ansari, from arrest in connection with alleged violation of the model code of conduct.
The MP/MLA court here has sentenced gangster-turned-politician Mukhtar Ansari to five and a half years of rigorous imprisonment and imposed a fine of Rs 10,000 in the case related to threatening a witness in the coal businessman Nand Kishore Rungta murder case.
In a major development in connection with the murder of Atiq Ahmed, the lawyer of the slain gangster-turned-politician was on Saturday night, police said.
Former Punjab Chief Minister, Captain Amarinder Singh, on Sunday, slammed the present Punjab CM Bhagwant Mann over his claims of recovery of the Rs 55 lakh spent on the "cosy stay" of gangster-turned-politician Mukhtar Ansari.
Notably, gangster Sanjeev Jeeva, a close aide of gangster-turned-politician Mukhtar Ansari, was shot dead by an unknown person inside Lucknow court premises on Wednesday.
A special MP-MLA court in Uttar Pradesh's Varanasi awarded life imprisonment to jailed gangster-turned-politician Mukhtar Ansari in the 1991 Awadhesh Rai murder case.