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Lucknow:An MP/MLA court in Varanasi Tuesday convicted dreaded gangster and ex-Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) MLAMukhtarAnsari in a 34-year-old case lodged against him for allegedly forging signatures of the then district magistrate (DM) and superintendent of police (SP) of Ghazipur to obtain an arms license for a double-barreled gun...
The court of special judge (MP/MLA) Avnish Gautam foundMukhtarAnsari guilty under sections 467 (forgery of a document which purports to be a valuable security or a will), 468 (forgery for purpose of cheating), and section 120-b (criminal conspiracy)of the Indian Penal Code (IPC), and section 30 of The Arms Act..
Shukla represented the Crime Branch, Crime Investigation Department (CB-CID) which had investigated the caseand lodged an FIR against Ansari, the then arms clerk Gauri Shankar Lal, five others named and some unknown accused in the Mohammadabad police station of Ghazipur on 4 December, 1990...
So, the state government initiated a CB-CID investigation in the case which went on for over a year and in December 1990, Ashfaq Ahmed, additional SP, CB-CID, got an FIR lodged in the case against Ansari, Lal and others, he said.. Shukla said that while the matter pertained to Ghazipur, it was transferred to a Varanasi court because section 13 (2)of The Prevention of Corruption Act was also invoked in thecase as the arms clerk and other officials, were also named in the case...
Shukla said that since the case has a section of the IPC under which the maximum punishment is life imprisonment, Ansari could be sentenced to life imprisonment...
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