Several Uttar Pradesh Police personnel left Punjab’s Rupnagar district on Tuesday with jailed gangster-turned-politician Mukhtar Ansari, who faces trial in several cases in the state, officials said.
Around seven vehicles of the Uttar Pradesh Police had reached the Rupnagar Police Lines around 4:30 am, they said.
The Police Lines is around four kilometres away from the Rupnagar jail, where Mukhtar Ansari had been lodged since January 2019 in connection with an extortion case. Punjab’s home department in a letter had asked the Uttar Pradesh government to take his custody from the Rupnagar jail on or before April 8.
t had written to the Uttar Pradesh additional chief secretary (home) following a March 26 Supreme Court order that had directed the Punjab government to transfer Mukhtar Ansari to UP’s Banda jail in two weeks from the Rupnagar prison.
The 150-member Uttar Pradesh Police team, including a company of the Provincial Armed Constabulary, equipped with sophisticated weapons left from Banda on Monday morning to bring back Mukhtar Ansari, the BSP’s Mau MLA, from Punjab.
