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Former five-time MLA and gangster-turned-politician Mukhtar Ansari's wife Afshan Ansari, who is on the run with at least 11 cases registered against her, missed her husband's funeral on Saturday after he died after suffering from a cardiac arrest in Uttar Pradesh's Banda jail.e)..
Ansari's elder son and Mau MLA Abbas Ansari, who is currently lodged in Kasganj district jail, also missed his father's last rites, as the petition filed by the former was not being taken up by the Allahabad high court as they were closed due to the holidays..
The fugitive wives of two other mafia-turned-politicians Shaista Parveen, wife of former MP Atiq Ahmad, and Zainab Fatima, wife of Ahmed's his younger brother and former MLA Khalid Azim, alias Ashraf also missed their husbands' final rites, who were killed in Prayagraj on April 15 last year...
According to Live Hindustan, a resident of Darzi Mohalla, Yusufpur in Ghazipur's Mohammadabad, Afshan is accused in 11 cases, including under the Uttar Pradesh Gangsters and Anti-Social Activities (Prevention) Act and has been on the run since 2021..
The UP police has issued lookout notices against slain mafia-politician Atiq Ahmads wife, Shaista Parveen, and his slain brother Ashraf's wife, Zainab Fatima, in connection with the advocate Umesh Pal and his two police guards' murder case, in which Atiq was one of the prime accused..
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