An official statement of the prison department released in Lucknow on Tuesday said, “Due to the sudden deterioration in the health of prisoner Mukhtar Ansari and falling in the toilet in the night, he was immediately given treatment by the jail doctor."
After informing the district administration, a team of doctors was called and the prisoner was referred to the medical college in the night itself. The prisoner was admitted to Medical College Banda under police protection where he is undergoing treatment."
However, his brother and Ghazipur MP Afzal Ansari claimed to news agency PTI that the district, jail, and hospital authorities were not giving the family details of Mukhtar’s health condition.
Mukhtar Ansari, 60, is a five-time former MLA from Mau Sadar seat and has been behind bars in UP and Punjab since 2005. He has over 60 criminal cases pending against him. He has been sentenced in eight cases since September 2022 by different courts of UP and was lodged in the Banda jail.
