Taking note of Mukhtar Ansari's death, the Supreme Court on Tuesday closed its proceedings on a plea filed by the jailed gangster-turned-politician against an order of the Allahabad High Court sentencing him to five-year jail term in a 24-year-old case.
"The petitioner is no more. The proceedings shall be abated," said the bench comprising justices Bela M. Trivedi and Pankaj Mithal after taking note of the statement that Ansari passed away.
On March 28, Ansari died of cardiac arrest at a hospital in Banda in Uttar Pradesh.
