Ghazipur. ED was already eyeing Mukhtar Ansari’s family. Now the scope of investigation has reached his close ones. In this sequence, on Thursday, there was a stir when the ED team started action against Mukhtar’s brother Afzal Ansari and his close ones. During this ED action on Mukhtar’s family as well as Mukhtar’s close friends, paramilitary forces were deployed for security. In this regard, the local police also got information only after taking action.
The Enforcement Directorate team raided the residences of Ghazipur MP Afzal Ansari, Khan bus owner Mumtaz Khan, Ganesh Mishra and Vikram Agrahari close to his brother Mukhtar Ansari in the early hours. This action went on for hours under the supervision of the Central Security Force. This created panic among the close relatives of Mukhtar and Afzal Ansari across the district. The ED was already eyeing the black money and illegal business of the Mukhtar gang. The ED is already probing Mukhtar’s illegal properties.
Afzal Ansari, MP from Ghazipur district, is the elder brother of mafia Mukhtar Ansari. Afzal Ansari won the 2019 Lok Sabha elections from Ghazipur Lok Sabha. Afzal Ansari defeated BJP leader Manoj Sinha by a margin of 119392 votes in this election. After the action on Mukhtar, the ED’s eyes were on Mukhtar’s close friends. On Thursday morning, Mukhtar and Afzal’s close aide Ganesh Mishra, a bus owner and another entrepreneur, created a ruckus after the ED’s information about the raid.
Investigation going on since morning: In the early hours ED team together raided the Muhammadabad residence of MP Afzal Ansari, Ganesh Mishra in Chandannagar, close to Mukhtar Ansari in Ghazipur city, Mumtaz Khan, mine bus owner Mumtaz Khan at Townhall and Saraf Vikram Agrahari’s residence in Mishrabazar . The family of all the brothers lives in the residence (Phatak) of the MP in Muhammadabad. In this, the family of former MLA Sibgatullah Ansari, his MLA son Suhaib Ansari and Mukhtar also live. Although Mukhtar’s family mostly lives outside, the accommodation is joint.
Deployment of Central Security Forces: In view of the hold in the local police of Mukhtar clan, this action went on for hours under the supervision of the Central Security Force. This has created panic among the close relatives of Mukhtar and Afzal across the district. Vikram Agrahari is now associated with BJP but the team has interrogated and investigated him here as well. Saraf Vikram Agrahari had earlier contested the municipal elections from the Quami Ekta Dal led by Afzal and Mukhtar. He later joined the BJP. He is in BJP for last many years. His nephew is also an office-bearer in the BJP Municipal Committee.