Ghazipur MP Afzal Ansari
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The High Court will pronounce its verdict on Monday on the issue of increasing the sentence of Ghazipur SP MP Afzal Ansari in the gangster case. The court had reserved its verdict on July 4 after the completion of the hearing. The case is being heard by the court of Justice Sanjay Kumar Singh.
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It is noteworthy that Afzal Ansari was sentenced to four years of imprisonment by the MP MLA court of Ghazipur in the gangster case that was started after the Krishnanand murder case. Against this, Afzal Ansari had filed an appeal in the High Court to cancel the sentence and the state government and Krishnanand Rai’s son had filed an appeal to increase the sentence. Earlier, Afzal’s appeal was rejected by the High Court, against which he had knocked the door of the Supreme Court.
The Supreme Court suspended the sentence and sent the case back to the High Court for rehearing. After hearing the case on the order of the Supreme Court, the court reserved the decision on July 4. Senior advocates Gopal Swaroop Chaturvedi, Dayashankar Mishra and Upendra Upadhyay, arguing on behalf of Afzal, argued that the gangster action initiated due to the Krishnanand Rai murder case is illegal, because Afzal Ansari has been acquitted of the Krishnanand Rai murder case.
While arguing on the appeal for increasing the sentence, Additional Advocate General of the state government PC Srivastava had said that lesser punishment cannot be given only on the basis of political influence and increasing age. By doing this, the dominance of criminals in politics will increase and the morale of the common people will be broken.
