Aspecial police team of Uttar Pradesh Government has left for Punjab on Mondayto shift mafia don and Bahujan Samaj Party MLA Mukhtar Ansari from the Roparjail to Uttar Pradesh's Banda jail.
InspectorGeneral Chitrakoot K. Satyanarayana said, "After reaching Ropar in Punjab,the team will complete the paper formalities to take his custody and bring himback. Adequate security force is being sent to bring him back to UPsafely."
Asrecommended by Punjab Government, a medical check-up of Mukhtar Ansari may alsobe done before bringing him back to the Banda Jail.
Besides,on reaching the Banda jail, he will go for mandatory RT-PCR test and will bequarantined in a secluded high-security cell in the Banda jail.
TheIG said that security in the jail has been beefed up and additional force wouldbe deployed at the main gate of the jail and surrounding areas. High alert hasbeen sounded in Banda and adjoining districts.
"Awatch will be kept on all hotels and guest houses to keep an eye onvisitors," he added.
OnMarch 26, the Supreme Court had ordered the Punjab government to hand overMukhtar Ansari back to Uttar Pradesh Police within two weeks, ignoring pleas ofthe Punjab government.
TheDepartment of Home and Justice, Punjab government on April 3 finally written tothe Additional Chief Secretary Home, Avanish Awasthi to make suitablearrangements for handing over Mukhtar Ansari to Uttar Pradesh Police beforeApril 8.
Meanwhile,the ambulance used to ferry gangster-turned-politician Mukhtar Ansari to aMohali court, was found abandoned outside a roadside eatery on theChandigarh-Nangal highway in Punjab's Rupnagar district. Thepolice said they have taken the vehicle in their custody.
RupnagarDeputy Superintendent of Police T.S. Gill told reporters that, "We havetaken the ambulance in our custody."
Thepolice said they got information that the ambulance bearing a registrationnumber of Uttar Pradesh was lying abandoned on the roadside.