PRAYAGRAJ: The High Court in Allahabad has denied bail to gang member Mukhtar Ansari in a 2010 homicide case in Mau district during which the imprisoned gangster-turned-politician can also be charged. Court says Ansari gang is ‘India’s most feared felony gang’ and it’s attainable defendant Ramu Mallah may affect witnesses and their testimony within the case he’s allowed out of jail.
Mallah, who’s on trial in a number of different circumstances, had filed the bail software beneath Section 439 of the CrPC, which empowers the court docket to grant bail and in addition impose situations on the accused if obligatory. .
Opposing the bail request, authorities lawyer Ratnendu Kumar Singh stated the defendant may affect witnesses and safe an acquittal within the current case. To this, the court docket agreed.
“Just since the defendant was acquitted because witnesses turned hostile in some (other) cases, his criminal record has not evaporated,” Judge Dinesh Kumar Singh noticed in his March 1 order.
“The accused plaintiff is a feared criminal and a member of India’s most feared criminal gang, namely Mukhtar Ansari’s gang. The accused plaintiff is facing several criminal cases of heinous offences,” he stated .
The court docket stated that if such a felony was allowed out of jail, he will surely have the ability to affect the witnesses and free and truthful testimony of the witnesses can be inconceivable.
“Therefore, I discover no substance within the argument of the realized plaintiff for the accused plaintiff that because the accused plaintiff has obtained acquittal (in different circumstances), he needs to be launched on bail. Thus, the current software is hereby dismissed,” Justice Singh added.
The court docket additionally urged the state to offer witness safety and assist for a free and honest trial.
“A free and fair trial and the preservation of the rule of law are not possible if the state does not protect witnesses and support them for their free, frank and fearless testimony,” he stated.
The court docket discovered it odd {that a} co-ordinated High Court bench gave Mallah bail in 2013 within the case.
Gangster Mukhtar Ansari, who was a deputy for Mau, is presently being held in Banda jail. He was taken to Banda Jail from a jail in Punjab in April 2021 after a Supreme Court order. His son Abbas Ansari now represents the constituency within the UP Assembly.
