Varanasi. Mukhtar Ansari has been sentenced to life imprisonment in a 36-year-old fake arms license case. The MP-MLA court of Varanasi has given the sentence.
The court of Special Judge (MP-MLA) Avnish Gautam found Mukhtar Ansari guilty and sentenced him to life imprisonment in the case of fraudulently obtaining an arms license 36 years ago in Ghazipur. The court has also imposed a fine of Rs 2 lakh, 2 thousand in this case.
36 year old case of obtaining arms license by fraud
The prosecution’s allegation against Mukhtar Ansari was that on June 10, 1987, he had applied to the District Magistrate for the license of a double barrel cartridge gun. The arms license was obtained by obtaining the recommendation with fake signatures of the District Magistrate and the Superintendent of Police. After this fraud was exposed, a case was registered by CBCID on December 4, 1990 in Muhammadabad police station against five named persons including Mukhtar Ansari, the then Deputy Collector and unknown others.
After investigation, charge sheet was sent to the court in 1997 against the then Ordnance Clerk Gaurishankar Srivastava and Mukhtar Ansari. Due to the death of Gaurishankar Srivastava during the hearing of the case, the case against him was dropped on 18 August 2021.
In this case, statements of ten witnesses including state Chief Secretary Alok Ranjan, former DGP Devraj Nagar were recorded by the prosecution. In the court, ADGC Vinay Kumar Singh appeared on behalf of the prosecution and senior prosecution officer Udayraj Shukla appeared on behalf of CBCID.