Ex-MLA Abbas Ansari's pleaagainst conviction rejected
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Varanasi: Court of Additional District and Sessions Judge (Gangster/MP-MLA Court) in Mau district on Saturday dismissed appeal of gangster-turned-politician
Mukhtar Ansari
's son and former MLA, Abbas Ansari, against his conviction in a 2022 hate speech case.
The court, however, while granting bail to Ansari and co-accused Mansoor, allowed further hearing on Jul 25 of the plea challenging the quantum of punishment awarded to Ansari by the CJM (MP-MLA) court .
The decision keeps up Ansari camp's hope alive regarding restoration of his Assembly membership, which was terminated after the CJM court sentenced him to two years' imprisonment on May 31. Abbas was sentenced for delivering a hate speech at a public meeting in Pahadpur during electioneering in Mar 2022 when he contested as a Samajwadi Party-Suheldev Bhartiya Samaj Party alliance candidate for the Mau Sadar assembly seat.
After the court delivered its order on Saturday, Ansari's advocate, Daroga Singh, said, "Additional District and Sessions Judge (Gangster/MP-MLA Court) Rajeev Kumar Vats dismissed our appeal challenging the conviction in this case. However, it continued the stay against the quantum of punishment sentenced by the CJM (MP-MLA) court and fixed Jul 25 as next date for further hearing. The court also granted bail to Ansari and the co-accused on furnishing bonds of Rs 50,000 each.
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Daroga Singh said, "After conviction, court fixes quantum of punishment. The CJM court sentenced the maximum punishment, which we challenged at the session court. On the basis of facts, we have challenged it. Since court has full authority to minimise quantum of punishment or even cancel it, hope for justice is alive."
Ansari lost his assembly membership when the CJM (MP-MLA) court of Mau on May 31 awarded him two years' imprisonment in the case of hate speech lodged against him on Mar 4, 2022.
While contesting the assembly election from the Mau Sadar seat, Ansari, in his Paharpur public meeting speech, targeted a govt officer on Mar 3, 2022, and its video went viral on social media, leading to lodging of the case the next day. The co-accused, Mansoor, who was proposer of Ansari in the 2022 assembly election, was awarded similar punishment.
Ansari emerged victorious in 2022 assembly polls from the Mau Sadar seat as a Samajwadi Party-Suheldev Bhartiya Samaj Party alliance candidate, but went behind bars following arrest by Prayagraj unit of enforcement directorate in a money laundering case in Feb 2023. He was released from jail in March this year.
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