Afzal Ansari Gets Relief From SC, Lok Sabha Membership Will Be Reinstated

New Delhi, December 14 (TNA) The Supreme Court on Thursday relief to former BSP MP Afzal Ansari from the four-year sentence given in the gangster case and put the sentence of Afzal Ansari on hold. The apex Supreme Court directs Allahabad High Court to dispose of criminal appeal against conviction and sentence of former BSP MP Afzal Ansari by June 30, 2024

The Supreme Court has conditionally suspended the sentence of former BSP MP Afzal Ansari in the 2007 Gangster Act case. After this decision of the Supreme Court, membership of BSP leader Afzal Ansari will be restored. He will also be able to participate in the current Parliament session. The Supreme Court said on this matter that former BSP MP Afzal Ansari can neither vote in the Lok Sabha nor take allowances, but can participate in the proceedings of the House.

A bench of Justice Surya Kant, Justice Dipankar Datta and Justice Ujjal Bhuyan said in the majority decision that Ansari, a former MP from Ghazipur constituency of Uttar Pradesh, will not cast his vote in the Lok Sabha nor receive any allowance, but will participate in the proceedings of the House. Can take. Justice Dutta said his opinion differed from the majority decision and dismissed Ansari's appeal.

Allahabad HC gets time to settle the conviction

The Supreme Court directed the Allahabad High Court to dispose of the criminal appeal against the conviction and sentence of former BSP MP Afzal Ansari by June 30, 2024. The apex court had on October 31 reserved its verdict on Ansari's plea seeking suspension of his conviction in the case.

Let us tell you that BSP MP Afzal Ansari is the brother of mafia Mukhtar Ansari. In his petition, Afzal Ansari had demanded the Supreme Court to suspend his conviction in the 2007 Gangster Act case. Afzal had asked the court to stay his conviction citing Rahul Gandhi's case. During the hearing in the Supreme Court, lawyer Abhishek Manu Singhvi, appearing for former MP Afzal Ansari, had said that the court should look at every aspect of the case, because if his conviction is not suspended, his Ghazipur constituency will be without representation in the Lok Sabha.

Ghazipur's special MP/MLA court had convicted Afzal Ansari and his brother Mukhtar Ansari in the 2007 Gangster Act case on April 29 this year. In the case, Afzal Ansari was sentenced to four years in prison while Mukhtar Ansari was sentenced to 10 years in prison. After this, the Lok Sabha membership of Ansari, who was the MP from Ghazipur, was cancelled.

Afzal Ansari had approached Allahabad High Court. On July 24, Allahabad High Court had approved his bail. But, the conviction was not stayed, due to which Afzal Ansari's MP was not reinstated. Both the brothers were booked under the UP Gangster Act in connection with the murder of then Ghazipur BJP MLA Krishnanand Rai on November 29, 2005 and the kidnapping-murder of Varanasi businessman Nand Kishore Rungta in 1997.