Banda. Magisterial investigation has also made it clear that Mafia Mukhtar Ansari died of heart attack and not poison. Relatives had alleged that he died due to poison mixed in food. Poison was not found in jaggery, gram and salt found in the barrack.
The DM has sent the investigation report to the government. Mafia Mukhtar Ansari, who was lodged in solitary confinement barrack of Mandal jail, fainted and fell on the evening of 28 March. He died while being taken to Rani Durgavati Medical College. Son Umar Ansari had accused the jail administration of killing him by poisoning him.
Umar had expressed suspicion of murder
On the second day, 29 March, a panel of five doctors including Dr. Satyendra Kumar Tiwari from SGPGI Lucknow conducted the post-mortem amid videography. It confirmed death due to heart attack. In the Panchnama, Mukhtar’s son Umar had written that his father’s death was not natural. On raising doubts, instructions were given for judicial and magisterial investigation.
The magisterial investigation was being conducted by ADM Finance and Revenue Rajesh Kumar. ADM submitted the report to DM Nagendra Pratap 10 days ago. It states that the report of the Forensic Science Laboratory Lucknow also did not find poison in the items found in the barrack. In the investigation, statements of more than 100 people including doctors of the medical college, security personnel of Mukhtar’s barrack, doctors who did the treatment and post-mortem, jail officers were recorded.
CCTV footage of 90 days before the incident was also seen. The bed in which the mafia’s body was kept in the hospital. That has also been investigated. All the medicines that were given to Mukhtar during treatment have been investigated. ADM said that those who expressed suspicion of poisoning were called to give statements, but they did not come. Therefore, it took more than five months to prepare the investigation report.
