Key Points
BJP MLA Krishnanand Rai was killed in 2005 allegedly on the orders of gangster-politician Mukhtar Ansari..
As a trophy and evidence of the killing, Mukhtar is said to have ordered Rai's braid chopped off..
In April 2023, a court in Uttar Pradesh's Ghazipur convicted and sentenced Mukhtar Ansari to 10 years imprisonment for Krishnanand Rai's murder..
In the 2002 UP Assembly polls, Krishnanand Rai defeated Mukhtar's brother, Afzal Ansari, and won the Mohammadabad constituency of Ghazipur district...
Due to lack of evidence, the CBI court in 2019 let off both Mukhtar and Afzal Ansari in the Krishnanand Rai murder case..
