Last Updated: March 29, 2024, 08:02 IST
Mukhtar Ansari Dead: Large crowd gathers outside gangster-politician’s home in Ghazipur (L) and security at Banda hospital. (ANI)
Mukhtar Ansari Death News: Mukhtar’s son Umar Ansari alleged that the ‘don-neta’ was ‘given slow poison’.
Uttar Pradesh police conducted a flag march in Firozabad on Friday morning, while security was tightened in the district after jailed gangster-turned-politician Mukhtar Ansari died of cardiac arrest at a hospital in Banda.
A large force of police personnel was also deployed outside Banda Medical College Hospital, where Mukhtar died. Meanwhile, a crowd of Ghazipur residents thronged outside the gangster-politician‘s home as cops kept a close vigil.
Mukhtar’s son Umar Ansari alleged that the ‘don-neta’ was “given slow poison”. “Post-mortem will be conducted tomorrow, following which the body will be handed over to us. We will then follow with the further process (cremation). A panel of around five doctors has been made formed (for carrying out the post-mortem),” he said.
#WATCH | On the death of Gangster-turned-politician Mukhtar Ansari after suffering a cardiac arrest, Umar Ansari, son of Mukhtar Ansari says, “Post-mortem will be conducted tomorrow, after that they will give us the body. We will then follow with the further process… pic.twitter.com/4by2OS5aUz— ANI (@ANI) March 28, 2024