The Supreme Court on December 14 conditionally suspended the conviction of former Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) MP Afzal Ansari in a 2007 Gangsters Act case.
A Bench of Justices Surya Kant, Dipankar Datta and Ujjal Bhuyan in a majority verdict said that Mr. Ansari, a former MP from the Ghazipur constituency of Uttar Pradesh, will not cast his vote in the Lok Sabha nor draw any perk but can attend the proceedings of the House.