AMN / New Delhi
Uttar Pradesh politician Mukhtar Ansari, his MP brother Afzal Ansari and 5 others were acquitted today by a special CBI court in connection with murder of BJP MLA Krishnanand Rai. Mukhtar Ansari, who has over 50 criminal cases registered against him, has been lodged in jail since 2005.BJP MLA Krishnanand Rai was murdered along with six others in Ghazipur in Nov. 2005. CBI later charged gangster-turned-politician Mukhtar Ansari with planning the murder.
Ansari has been elected five times from the Mau Assembly constituency. His first victory came in 1996 when he fought on a BSP ticket. In 2010, Ansari was expelled by BSP for criminal activities.