LUCKNOW: The Lucknow bench of the Allahabad high court on Friday convicted and sentenced don-turned-politician and former MLA Mukhtar Ansari to five-year rigorous imprisonment in a 23-year-old Gangsters Act case. The court also imposed a fine of Rs 50,000 on him.
Justice D K Singh passed the order overturning the acquittal by a special MP-MLA court in 2020. The bench said that since Mukhtar is already in jail, there is no need to pass an order for his surrender.
