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.
Gorakhpur: Two unidentified men on a motorcycle allegedly shot dead the shopkeeper of an electronics shop and his employee after entering their shop i.
Varanasi: As new Covid-19 positive cases crossed the bar of 100 between Wednesday evening and Thursday morning, the district administration, which was now focusing on large-scale vaccination, has restarted enforcing Covid protocol strictly and Section 144 CrPC has been promulgated in the entire district. Moreover, level-2 facilities have also been restarted.
District magistrate Kaushal Raj Sharma told TOI on Thursday, “Section 144 CrPC has been enforced in the district. So far, the entire focus was on vaccination drive in order to curb the Covid mortality rate. But, as the fresh wave has adopted an alarming trend again since last week of March, it has been decided to give equal emphasis to increasing sampling for lab tests and restarting level-2 facilities.”
Mukhtar Ansari (File photo)
LUCKNOW/CHANDIGARH/VARANASI: The mystery over the ambulance with a UP registration that was used to ferry jailed gangster-turned-politician Mukhtar Ansari from Ropar jail to Mohali court in Punjab turned murkier on Thursday after cabinet minister and government spokesperson Siddharth Nath Singh said the ambulance is bullet-proof and owned by Mukhtar Ansari himself and questioned the role of Punjab government in the entire issue.
“A thorough probe will be conducted to find out how an ambulance is being used as a private vehicle by Mukhtar Ansari. It is a bullet-proof luxury vehicle,” he said. “It is now for the Punjab government to explain how a jail inmate was allowed to use a private vehicle to reach Mohali court for a hearing and brought back to Ropar jail. It is more than evident that the Congress government in Punjab is providing patronage to the gangster and Twitter rani Priyanka Gandhi should now explain this at least on twitter,” Singh sa
Varanasi: In the initial phase of commissionerate policing system, the police officers will exercise their power of executive magistrates from a single court though no decision was taken about the place to establish this courtroom on Wednesday.
After completing the process of re-designating officers in the new policing system, commissioner of police (CP) A Satish Ganesh on Wednesday intensified efforts for creating basic infrastructure like arranging offices for himself and subordinates. “The re-designation process of subordinates was completed till Tuesday night immediately after the arrival of formal approval of police headquarters in this regard,” he added.
The CP further said, “Now, major exercise is continuing to finalise offices and courtrooms as basic infrastructure for effective implementation of commissionerate policing system. In the initial phase, we have decided to establish only one courtroom where police officials of different ranks will exercise their power o