The Allahabad High Court has granted additional time to the legal team of Ghazipur MP Afzal Ansari to file objections regarding a plea seeking a harsher sentence for him under the Gangsters Act. This decision came during a hearing on Tuesday.

The Supreme Court on Tuesday granted interim bail to Abbas Ansari , who is currently detained in Kasganj Jail , to attend the ‘fatiha’ ritual of his deceased father Mukhtar Ansari.

During his visit to console the Ansari's family, Yadav , hailing the "contribution" of Ansari's family, claimed that due to the work done for the poor, he won elections from jail and his grandfather and maternal grandfather were freedom fighters - the face that the government wanted to hide.

Gangster-turned-politician Mukhtar Ansari, who passed away from a cardiac arrest, was laid to rest at the Kali Bagh burial ground in Ghazipur on Saturday.

The dead body of former gangster turned politician Mukhtar Ansari, who passed away following a cardiac arrest, was transported to his residence in Ghazipur for final rites amidst heavy police presence by the local authorities.

In the wake of the recent death of gangster-turned-politician Mukhtar Ansari in police custody in Uttar Pradesh, Congress leader Pankhuri Pathak has raised concerns over the alarming rate of custodial deaths in the state.

Mukhtar Ansari's son Umar also alleged that his father was given poison in the food and said he would approach the court.

Born into an influential family in 1963, Ansari entered the world of crime to establish himself and his gang in the government contract mafia that was then flourishing in the state.

Mukhtar Ansari, aged 63, had a significant criminal record, with over 60 pending cases against him. He had been serving time in jails in Uttar Pradesh and Punjab since 2005.

A special MP/MLA court in Varanasi on Wednesday sentenced gangster-turned-politician Mukhtar Ansari to life imprisonment in a 36-year-old fake arms licence case.