The Supreme Courtroom on Tuesday allowed late gangster-politician Mukhtar Ansari’s son Abbas Ansari, at present lodged in Kasganj Jail, to attend his father’s ‘fatiha’ ceremony scheduled for Wednesday.
A bench of Justice Surya Kant and Justice Ok V Viswanathan famous that he couldn’t attend the funeral rights of his father as he was in judicial custody and mentioned: “We see no purpose to disclaim the petitioner to attend the fatiha ritual.”
The UP authorities’s counsel identified that Abbas Ansari is a history-sheeter with over 11 instances pending in opposition to him and within the occasion of grant of interim bail, there’s a chance of him threatening witnesses and/or inflicting different regulation and order issues. The counsel referred to his alleged illegal actions in jail and the explanations that compelled the authorities to shift him from Chitrakoot jail to Kasganj jail.
Paying attention to the apprehension of upkeep of regulation and order, the Supreme Courtroom directed that he “shall be taken from Kasganj jail to his hometown Ghazipur in police custody and with sufficient safety”, and requested the Director Basic of Police of Uttar Pradesh “to do the needful on this regard”.
“Holding in view, the space between the 2 locations, it’s directed that the police authorities in coordination with jail authorities will be sure that the petitioner begins his journey as we speak (Tuesday) on the earliest, however not later than 5 pm,” the court docket mentioned and added that after completion of the rituals, Abbas ought to be quickly shifted to the native jail in Ghazipur.
The court docket additionally requested the Ghazipur district administration to confirm if there are different rituals to happen from April 11.