The Supreme Court on Wednesday issued notice to the Enforcement Directorate (ED) in the bail plea filed by jailed MLA Abbas Ansari in connection with a money laundering case. Abbas Ansari is the son of the late gangster-politician Mukhtar Ansari, who died in jail a few months ago.
A bench of justices M M Sundresh and Sandeep Mehta issued notice to the central probe agency and sought its reply on the appeal filed by Ansari challenging an order of the Allahabad High Court which rejected his bail application.
On May 9, the Allahabad High Court rejected Ansari’s bail plea, taking note of the money trail put forward by the ED in the case against him. The Mau MLA is currently lodged in the Kasganj jail.
While appearing in the court Senior Advocate Kapil Sibal representing Ansari told the court: “If you are an Ansari, your have to stay in jail.”
The Supreme Court is allready looking into the question whether MLA Abbas Ansari should get bail in a case registered against him for meeting his wife illegally in office of the prison superintendent in Chitrakoot jail in Uttar Pradesh.
The top court in July had issued notice to Uttar Pradesh government on Ansari’s bail plea.
Abbas Ansari is accused of illegally meeting his wife Nikhat in the office of the prison superintendent of Chitrakoot jail. Reportedly, the meetings between the husband and wife used to last for several hours.
Sibal had earlier represented Ansari’s case for bail in case of illegaly meeting his wife jail. It may be recalled, that the Supreme Court is already hearing Ansari’s bail plea in the case against him for illegally meeting his wife in jail.
Earlier, Umar Ansari had moved the Supreme Court alleging Mukhtar Ansari was poisoned in jail, wants to seek an inquiry into his father’s death.
In 2023, Umar Ansari had filed a petition seeking his father’s transfer from Uttar Pradesh Jail on account of anticipated threat to his life.
Supreme Court had issued notice after Senior Advocate Kapil Sibal informed the court that Umar Ansari will be filing an application to amend the earlier writ plea seeking transfer and changing the relief in plea to an inquiry into his death.
Sibal told the court that the allegation is that food Mukhtar Ansari was given was poisoned. He said what Umar Ansari feared had happened.
