Bail plea of Mukhtar Ansari’s MLA son Abbas Ansari in ‘hisab-kitab’ case turned down

VARANASI: Bail application of jailed mafia don Mukhtar Ansari’s son and jailed Suheldeo Bharatiya Samaj Party MLA from Mau Sadar, Abbas Ansari, in March 2022 ‘Hisab-Kitab’ episode was rejected by chief judicial magistrate (MP-MLA) Shweta Chaudhary in Mau district on Tuesday.
Talking to TOI, special prosecution officer Mau, Dharmendra Nath Tiwari on Wednesday said that the lawyer of Abbas Ansari had moved a bail application before the court of CJM, who is also the charge of MP-MLA court, on Tuesday.
He said, “After hearing the arguments of Ansari’s lawyer and additional prosecution officer Ravindra Pratap Yadav on Tuesday, the CJM rejected the bail plea.”
The SP-SBSP candidate Ansari had allegedly threatened officials from a public meeting dais in Paharpur area on March 3, 2022 night by stating, “After formation of SP-led government, the officials would have to give ‘hisab-kitab’ (account) of their work of the past regime before getting transferred.”
The video clips of the speech of Abbas delivered at Paharpur area started getting viral in social media from March 3 late night. In this video, Abbas could be seen stating, “Before leaving Lucknow for contesting Mau I had a detailed talk with Akhilesh Bhaiyya (SP supremo Akhilesh Yadav) when I said that we don't issue transfer list of officers for six months after formation of government. The officers will first give the account of their work before their transfer certificates are signed.”
After the video of the speech went viral on social media, the Mau police on March 4 booked him in a case under sections 171F (offence of undue influence or personation at an election) and 506 (criminal intimidation) of IPC.
Later, after taking legal opinion in the case registered against Abbas, more sections, including 153A (promoting enmity between different groups on grounds of religion, race), 186 (voluntarily obstructs any public servant in the discharge of his public functions), 189 (Threatening a public servant with injury to him) and 120B (criminal conspiracy) were added by police in the case in which Abbas’ brothers Umar Ansari and Mansoor Ansari were also made accused.
After examining the report of Mau officials, the ECI had imposed a 24 hours ban on campaigning by Abbas.