Jailed Gangster Mukhtar Ansari Hospitalised After Heart Attack, Condition Critical: Sources – News18

Jailed gangster-turned-politician Mukhtar Ansari has been admitted to a hospital in Uttar Pradesh’s Banda district after his health deteriorated again, a source informed News18, adding that he suffered a heart attack and his condition is said to be critical. Ansari is now undergoing treatment at a medical college in Banda.

On March 26, he was admitted in the same medical college for around 14 hours after he complained of abdominal pain. Principal of Rani Durgavati Medical College, Banda, Sunil Kaushal said that Ansari was admitted to hospital at around 3.45 am following “pain in the stomach and problem in urinating and excretion”.

Subsequently, his problems were resolved, “At around 5.45 pm on Tuesday, Mukhtar Ansari was discharged from the ICU ward of the medical college, and the jail administration took him back to prison,” Kaushal said.

An official statement of the prison department released in Lucknow on Tuesday said, “Due to the sudden deterioration in the health of prisoner Mukhtar Ansari and falling in the toilet in the night, he was immediately given treatment by the jail doctor.”

After informing the district administration, a team of doctors was called by which the prisoner was referred to the medical college in the night itself. The prisoner was admitted to Medical College Banda under police protection where he is undergoing treatment.”

However, his brother and Ghazipur MP Afzal Ansari claimed to news agency PTI that the district, jail and hospital authorities were not giving the family details of Mukhtar’s health condition.

Mukhtar Ansari, 60, is a five-time former MLA from Mau Sadar seat and has been behind bars in UP and Punjab since 2005. He has over 60 criminal cases pending against him. He has been sentenced in eight cases since September 2022 by different courts of UP and was lodged in the Banda jail.

(with inputs from PTI)