Mukhtar Ansari started gaining prominence during the 1980s and 90s, a period characterised by the widespread criminalisation of politics in Uttar Pradesh. He was facing trial in various cases in courts of Delhi, Punjab, and multiple districts of Uttar Pradesh. Since 2020, the UP government and the UP police have intensified efforts to prosecute Ansari.
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Jailed politician Mukhtar Ansari had entered into the world of crime when he was just 15. His paternal grandfather was a freedom fighter and maternal grandfather was a brigadier in the Indian Army. Know more about gangster-politician Mukhtar Ansari here.