Twenty-one associates of jailed don Mukhtar Ansari were arrested

Twenty-one associates of jailed don Mukhtar Ansari were arrested from the state capital on Sunday evening. hey were on way to execute crimes involving extortion and land grabbing in different parts of the state capital. Five revolvers, four rifles, one double barrel gun, 118 cartridges and 32 cellphones were recovered from the accused travelling in five SUVs. Senior superintendent of police (SSP) Akhil Kumar said that the arrests were made following a tip-off.
“The group was undertaking criminal activities in the name of Mukhtar Ansari for quite sometime now.
Investigations revealed that they were in regular touch with Ansari through cellphones or meetings inside the jail or during his visits to district courts,” he said. The Cantonment police intercepted the gang in Rajman Bazaar area. They have been charged under various sections of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) and Section 188 of the Criminal Procedure Code (CrPC). They have also been charged under the Arms Act, Motor Vehicle’s Act and Criminal Law Amendment Act.
“We are preparing crime history of them all so that Gangster’s Act could be slapped on them,” SSP told TOI. The arrested persons were identified as Amarnath, Ramakant Yadav, Ram Bachan Ram, Nasim Ahmad, Manoj Kumar, Shambhu Ram, Subhash Yadav, Babban Yadav, Kamta Ram, Ramjanam Yadav, Zakir Hussain, Shamshuddin, Zubair Ahmad, Mohammed Kashif, Arvind Kumar Singh, Guddu, Ashish, Tauqueer, Radhey Shyam, Manoj and Shakeel Haider. According to the police, they were working as the henchmen of Ansari who is languishing in jail in connection with the murder of BJP MLA Krishna Nand Rai.