Get latest articles and stories on India at LatestLY. Ghazipur/ An MP-MLA court in Ghazipur on Friday sentenced jailed mafia-turned-politician Mukhtar Ansari to 10 years of imprisonment in a case registered under the Gangsters Act. India News | Mukhtar Ansari Sentenced to 10 Years Imprisonment in Gangsters Act Case.
Inspired by multiple crime web series they watched, the accused allegedly burnt the victim's body “to destroy evidence” and dumped it at a secluded spot in a village on the road to Ahmednagar on June 1, police said.
The body was initially thought to be the homeowner s body, Sibusiso Mahlangu, who, along with his wife, now stand accused of killing another man and passing the burnt body off as his to cash in on his life insurance.