Varanasi: The controversy over jailed mafia don turned MLA Mukhtar Ansari being ferried from Ropar jail to Mohali court in Punjab on Wednesday in an ambulance with registration number of Uttar Pradesh saw ex-MLA Krishnanand Rai’s widow and BJP MLA Rai and a doctor sharing same name, Dr Alka Rai, demanding probe into the incident.
As soon as it was known that an ambulance with UP registration number (UP41 AT 7171) had ferried Mukhtar from Ropar jail to Mohali court, it was tracked and was found registered in the name of a Mau-based private hospital, being run by the brother of Dr Alka Rai, who is posted in a government hospital and is also general secretary of BJP’s Gorakhpur regional unit women wing.