Key Points
After Shasita Parveen, the absconding wife of gangster Atiq Ahmed who was shot dead last year while being taken to hospital in police custody, now the name of another 'lady don' has emerged with the death of gangster-turned-politician Mukhtar Ansari a few days ago..
There was speculation whether Ansari's wife, Afsha, who is wanted in several criminal cases and is on the run, would attend the last rites of her husband today..
His son, Umar Ansari, and brother, Ghazipur MP Afzal Ansari, were present at the funeral..
The ill-gotten wealth of jailed mafia dons including Mukhtar Ansari, Dhruv Singh alias Kuntu and Vijay Mishra, who ran their syndicates and illegal business through their wives, was targeted by the government in its crackdown on organized crime in Uttar Pradesh...
With the UP Police beginning to crackdown on gangster wives or lady dons who ran their jailed husband's criminal enterprise, the heat reached Afsha too..
