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The MP/MLA court here has sentenced gangster-turned-politician Mukhtar Ansari to five and a half years of rigorous imprisonment and imposed a fine of Rs 10,000 in the case related to threatening a witness in the coal businessman Nand Kishore Rungta murder case.
Mafia Mukhtar Ansari has so far been sentenced in a total of seven cases, including the 1991 murder case of Awadhesh Rai, in which Ansari was sentenced to life imprisonment in June this year. Back to the MP/MLA Court's judgement earlier today, Mukhtar Ansari has been found guilty in the case of threatening Mahavir Prasad Rungta, a witness to the murder of coal businessman Nand Kishore Rungta. Nand Kishore Rungta, a coal businessman from Jawahar Nagar of Bhelupur police station area of Varanasi, was murdered after being kidnapped on January 22, 1997. After this, on the evening of November 5, 1997, Nand Kishore Rungta's brother Mahavir Prasad Rungta, a witness in the case, received bomb threats on his landline not to file a complaint with the police. A case in this regard was registered at Bhelupur police station on December 1 of that year. After the investigation, the police presented the charge sheet against Mukhtar Ansari before the court on July 3, 1998. (ANI)
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