The Supreme Court on Monday provided interim protection from arrest to jailed gangster-turned-politician Mukhtar Ansari’s son Umar Ansari in an evacuee property case.
Issuing notice to the State of Uttar Pradesh, a Bench of Justices A.S. Bopanna and M.M. Sundresh, asked Mr. Umar Ansari to, however, cooperate with the investigation into the case.
Mr. Umar Ansari had challenged an order of the Allahabad High Court, which dismissed his plea for pre-arrest bail.