Jailed UP gangster-politician Mukhtar Ansari dies of heart attack

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He was rushed to a hospital after his health deteriorated but died during treatment...

Mukhtar Ansari, the five-time MLA from Uttar Pradesh's Mau district, died of cardiac arrest on Thursday evening..

The gangster-politician, who was lodged in Banda district jail, was rushed to Rani Durgavati Medical College earlier this evening after his health deteriorated...

Doctors were first called to the jail to treat him, but he was rushed to the hospital after medics suspected he had a cardiac arrest...

Mukhtar Ansari was a five-time former MLA from Mau Sadar seat and had been behind bars in UP and Punjab since 2005..

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