Varanasi: Fearing threat to the life of jailed mafia don and MLA Mukhtar Ansari while shifting him from Ropar jail in Punjab to UP, his wife Afsha Ansari has shot another letter to the President of India requesting him to intervene and ensure adequate security for safety of her husband.
In the 14-page letter sent to the President on Wednesday, she claimed her husband can be killed in encounter by planting some false story in case, UP police officials are allowed to bring Mukhtar from Punjab without fixing their responsibility for his safety.
Referring to the recent killing of sharpshooter Girdhari in an encounter in Lucknow and killing of Prem Prakash alias Munna Bajrangi, a co-accused with Mukhtar in killing of BJP MLA Krishnanand Rai, in Baghpat jail few years ago, she demanded personnel of central paramilitary forces in the escort team.
She also mentioned that jailed mafia dons like MLC Brijesh Singh, his nephew and MLA Sushil Singh and Tribhuvan Singh are also conspiring to kill Mukhtar.
Claiming five attempts to kill Mukhtar had already been made in the past 16 years.
She further alleged in the letter that BJP MLA Alka Rai and some political opponents of Mukhtar have been stepping up pressure on the state government because of which some senior officials can hatch a plot to kill her husband.
The don’s wife also alleged that several properties of her family have been destroyed and the career of her son, a national-level shooter, spoiled by booking him in false cases.
This was the second letter written to the President by Afsha Ansari who had levelled similar allegations in her first letter sent on November 1, 2020.