Samajwadi Party MLA Rafiq Ansari from Meerut, Uttar Pradesh has been arrested by Barabanki police on Monday. Meanwhile, Meerut Police has left for Barabanki to pick up Rafiq Ansari. Actually, Allahabad High Court had issued non-bailable warrant (NBW) against Ansari. Ansari did not appear in the court even after more than 100 notices in this regard. He was elected MLA for the second time from Meerut city on SP ticket.
Earlier this month, the Allahabad High Court had flatly refused to quash the criminal proceedings against Rafiq Ansari in a 1995 case. The court said that about 100 non-bailable warrants were issued to him between 1997 and 2015. Despite this, he did not appear in the trial court. MLA Ansari had approached the court to end the criminal case, but he did not get any relief.
High Court had made this comment
Justice Sanjay Kumar Singh said that ignoring the non-bailable warrant against the sitting MLA and allowing him to participate in the assembly session would set a dangerous and serious precedent.
Ansari had filed an application under Section 482 and requested that the criminal proceedings pending against him in a criminal case before the MP-MLA Court of Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate, Meerut, be quashed. This case was registered in Nauchandi police station of the city in the year 1995. After investigation, a first charge sheet was filed against 22 accused and thereafter another supplementary charge sheet was filed against the applicant Ansari, of which the concerned court took cognizance in August 1997.
The court had issued 101 warrants
Ansari did not appear in the court even once in the case. After this, the court issued a non-bailable warrant on 12 December 1997, but he still did not appear. Its courts continued issuing non-bailable warrants, the number of which reached 101. During the hearing in the High Court, Ansari’s lawyer had sought quashing of the criminal proceedings on the grounds that the 22 accused originally charged in the case had already been acquitted after facing trial, hence the proceedings against them should be quashed. should go.
