A court in Varanasi has sentenced Islamic preacher Maulana Jarjis Ansari to 10 years of rigorous imprisonment after convicting him in a rape and blackmail case that dates back to 2016. The sentence was handed down by Additional District Judge Neeraj Shrivastava at a fast-track court in Uttar Pradesh.
According to court findings, the case involved allegations that Ansari misled a woman about his marital status, entered into a relationship with her under false pretences and later used intimate recordings to blackmail her.
