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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. ....
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,” ....