SAMAJWADI PARTY (SP) legislator from Meerut, Rafiq Ansari, who was arrested by the Meerut police from Barabanki district on Sunday night following an Allahabad Excessive Court docket directive, was produced in a court docket on Monday and despatched to judicial custody for 14 days.
Rafiq, who gained a second consecutive time period within the 2022 UP Meeting polls, is a historical past sheeter within the Meerut police data. He has been elected as councillor thrice, with the assist of the Samajwadi Party.
In 2012, Rafiq contested the Meeting polls for the primary time on an SP ticket however misplaced to the BJP nominee Lakshmi Kant Bajpai by a margin of 4,000 votes. Nevertheless, the then Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav gave Rafiq a ministerial berth that 12 months. 5 years later, Rafiw defeated Bajpai by round 38, 000 votes.
In 1997, Rafiq was declared an absconder by a Meerut court docket after he didn’t seem in court docket in reference to two FIRs registered at Nauchandi police station over arson and injury to the property of meat retailers in Hapur Street space in 1995. Because the first non-bailable warrant (NBW) served in 1997 until he was arrested final night , the sitting MLA was served with 101 NBWs however he by no means appeared in court docket.
“We moved the HC for anticipatory bail final 12 months however the HC refused, saying plenty of NBWs had been served to Rafiq who didn’t seem within the court docket whereas he might be seen attending Meeting classes and different occasions,” stated Rafiq’s lawyer Amit Kumar Dixit. On Friday, the HC directed Meerut Senior Superintendent of Police to arrest the accused and current him in court docket for the following listening to within the case.