A team of 100 UP cops have reportedly reached Punjab’sRupnagar district on Tuesday to bring back mafia don and Bahujan Samaj PartyMLA Mukhtar Ansari, who faces trial in several murder, extortion cases in UttarPradesh.
The police team is likely to return with Ansari to UP,late on Tuesday night.
Two barracks in the Banda jail have been converted intoan isolation cell for Bahujan Samaj Party MLA Mukhtar Ansari, who will belodged here after he is brought back to Uttar Pradesh from Punjab.
The barrack will have a three-layer security, said thepolice. The outer security ring will be manned by two teams of civil police,each led by a sub-inspector and 10 armed constables.
The second security ring will comprise special CCTVs thathave been installed at the entry points and a team of five jail officials whichwill keep an eye on the CCTV footage round-the-clock. The third and innermostring will comprise a team of jail warders.
Pramod Tiwari, acting superintendent of the BandaDistrict Jail, said no other prisoner can access Barrack Number-15 whereMukhtar Ansari will be kept.
"Three prison guards will be deployed inside thebarrack," he said.
Inspector General, Chitrakoot Dham Range, K.Satyanarayan, said a PAC unit has also been deployed outside the Banda jail. Atemporary police outpost has also been recommended outside the jail.
Satyanarayan said the Banda police has been kept on highalert and checking of lodges, hotels, rest houses in the district was beingdone since Monday.
The Uttar Pradesh Police said that Mukhtar Ansari isfacing 52 cases in the state and elsewhere, and 15 of them are in the trialstage.
The BSP MLA from Mau has been lodged in Rupnagar prisonsince January 2019 in connection with an extortion case. The police have, tillnow, arrested 96 criminals and seized, freed, or demolished property worth Rs 192crore linked to the BSP MLA and his associates.
Meanwhile, Mukhtar Ansari's family members have said thatthey fear for his life in Uttar Pradesh. Mukhtar Ansari's brother and BSP MPfrom Ghazipur, Afzal Ansari, expressed apprehensions that a 'conspiracy' may behatched against him in the UP jail.