Mukhtar Ansari s son Umar Ansari claimed his father was given slow poison in jail. Ansari died on Thursday in a hospital in Uttar Pradesh s Banda district due to cardiac arrest.
The death of gangster-turned-politician Mukhtar Ansari has triggered discussions on social media platform X, where netizens referenced his 2021 Supreme Court petition alleging a conspiracy by the Uttar Pradesh government to orchestrate a "state-sponsored encounter." Mukhtar Ansari in his petition had highlighted Ansari s familial ties to former vice-president Hamid Ansari.
Security has been tightened in several Uttar Pradesh towns after gangster-turned-politician Mukhtar Ansari died of a cardiac arrest. His family though allege that the gangster, who has been in jail since 2005, was poisoned.