A gangster was killed during the exchange of fire with police at Government Medical College (GMC) premises in Jammu and Kashmir's Kathua. According to Kathua police, one police personnel named Deepak Sharma got injured during the firing.
All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) chief Asaduddin Owaisi visited gangster-turned-politician Mukhtar Ansari's residence in Ghazipur, who died after suffering a cardiac arrest.
The Directorate of Enforcement (ED) attached movable and immovable properties worth Rs 17.82 crore situated at Narnaul, Haryana and Jaipur, Rajasthan belonging to family members of a notorious gangster of Haryana and aide of gangster Lawrence Bishnoi, in a money laundering case on Sunday.
Ajay Rai, UP Congress President, on Saturday urged the Uttar Pradesh government to address the allegations surrounding the death of incarcerated gangster-turned-politician Mukhtar Ansari.
District Magistrate Gazipur Aryaka Akhoury said on Saturday that police have been deployed along the route leading from his home to the graveyard as the last rites of the gangster turned politician Mukhtar Ansari would be held today.
The dead body of gangster-turned-politician Mukhtar Ansari, who died after suffering a cardiac arrest, was brought to his Ghazipur residence for last rites amid heavy police deployment by the district administration.
"We received the body after some delay so the last rites cannot be performed tonight. It will be done tomorrow morning. I request everybody to pray for him," Sibgatullah Ansari told ANI on Friday.
"Since this news flashed last night, the entire district administration is on alert. We are in touch with the family and they have said that the last rites will be done after morning prayers," Omvir Singh told reporters here.
Amid opposition raising questions on the Uttar Pradesh government over the death of gangster Mukhtar Ansari, Uttar Pradesh minister and Nishad party Chief Sanjay Nishad said that the opposition is out of topics and hence creates big deal out of everything.