SC Grants Anticipatory Bail to Gangster Mukhtar Ansari’s son in Evacuee Property Case

GG News Bureau

New Delhi, 17th July. In an evacuee property case, the Supreme Court granted anticipatory bail to jailed gangster-turned-politician Mukhtar Ansari’s son Umar Ansari on Monday.

On his petition challenging a decision of the Allahabad High Court, a bench of Justices A S Bopanna and M M Sundresh issued notice to the Uttar Pradesh government.

On April 13, the high court denied Umar’s plea for anticipatory bail. It also denied an appeal by Mukhtar Ansari’s second son, SBSP MLA Abbas Ansari, to vacate the charge sheet in the same case.

It ruled on two petitions filed independently by the two brothers.

It was pleaded on behalf of the Ansari brothers that mutation of the property was in the name of their forefathers before their birth and hence, no offence was made out against them.  The state counsel had opposed the plea, arguing that the duo was also accused of forging the signature of their grandmother and hence, a clear offence was made out against them.

Surjan Lal, a revenue officer, filed a FIR in the case on August 27, 2020, at the Hazratganj police station in Lucknow.

The FIR claimed that Mukhtar and his sons had plundered evacuee property by forging documents.

Property left behind by persons who migrated to Pakistan during Partition is referred to as evacuee property. These are typically given to persons who came to India from Pakistan at the time.