Gangster politician Mukhtar Ansari dies of cardiac arrest at 63

Jailed gangster-turned-politician Mukhtar Ansari died of cardiac arrest after being hospitalized earlier in the day. The five-time former MLA from Uttar Pradesh’s Mau province has been serving jail terms in the state and Punjab since 2005.

The 63-year-old man, lodged in a jail in UP’s Banda, was taken to a prison in the area by jail authorities around 8.25 pm on Thursday after he complained of vomiting in a comatose state, a medical bulletin said. N. Durgavati Medical College.

“A team of nine doctors provided immediate medical care to the patient. However, despite their best efforts, the patient succumbed to cardiac arrest,” the advisory in Hindi said.

Soon after Ansari was brought to the hospital, a large police force was deployed outside the hospital and a prohibitory order was imposed across Uttar Pradesh after his death under Section 144 of the Code of Criminal Procedure (CrPC), news agency PTI reported .

Ansari was also admitted to the hospital in the early hours of Tuesday and was discharged nearly 14 hours later. Ansari’s brother, Ghazipur MP Afzal Ansari, later claimed that the gangster-turned-politician was given “toxic substances” in jail.

“Mukhtar said he was poisoned with a poisonous substance in food in prison. This was the second time. About 40 days ago, he was also poisoned. Most recently, on March 19 or March 22 On the same day, he was poisoned again. “(The poison) left him in a bad condition,” PTI quoted Afzal Ansari as saying.

However, the prison service said Mr Ansari’s health deteriorated and he fell in the toilet before being taken to hospital at around 3.45am on Tuesday. “As the health condition of inmate Mukhtar Ansari suddenly deteriorated and he fell in the toilet during the night, the jail doctor immediately treated him. After informing the district administration, a team of doctors was convened, The prisoner was referred to him and went to medical school in the evening,” a statement from the prison administration said.