Report: Anjali Singh Rajput
Lucknow. ‘The government should order expert officers to find out about all the whereabouts of Mukhtar Ansari so that his economic empire can be destroyed. If any mafia has to be destroyed, then its economic power should be destroyed first. Mafia Atiq Ahmed has been eliminated to a great extent, but Mukhtar Ansari has not suffered that much damage yet. This is to say of former DSP Shailendra Singh. This is the same brave officer who invoked the Prevention of Terrorism Act (POTA) against Ansari and had to face a lot of harassment in the Mulayam Singh Yadav government. In a special conversation with Singh, StuffunknownLocal learned about all the important aspects related to Ansari.
Former DSP Shailendra Singh said that Mukhtar Ansari’s poetic statement has a direct message that he is still in a very strong position. So far, only 15 percent of the damage has been done by the government. He is still playing in crores. The government does not have complete information about all his whereabouts. When he investigated this whole matter, it has come to know that Mukhtar Ansari’s business is spread in the country and abroad. 40 to 50 crores are still coming to him.
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‘Government will give Intel’
Singh said that he has information about most of the locations of Mukhtar Ansari. Like he has many businesses of eggs and fish. If the government asks, this information will be kept in front. He told that the Yogi government has broken his back to a great extent, still a lot of work is left to be done.
Singh said that when he sees Mukhtar Ansari on a wheelchair, he feels happy. It is said that everyone’s time comes. Its time has come now. I was left with a job of 22 years, but the reason for my resignation was Mukhtar Ansari. I had written in my resignation also that now the mafia will tell us what to do. He said that at that time Yogi Adityanath supported him and his family. Then Yogi had said that when he will come to power, there will be justice and justice has been done.
What happened 18 years ago?
In January 2004, when Shailendra Singh was in charge of the Varanasi unit of the Special Task Force of Uttar Pradesh. At that time there was firing in the gang war between Krishnanand Rai and Mukhtar Ansari in the Cantt area of Lucknow. The then Samajwadi Party government activated the UP STF on this matter. STF was monitoring both the groups through surveillance. Only then it came to know in a call that Mukhtar Ansari was talking to a fugitive soldier to buy LMG (light machine gun) for one crore.
Then Shailendra Singh raided the Chaubepur area of Varanasi on January 25, 2004 and nabbed Babu Lal Yadav and Munnar Yadav from the spot and recovered the LMG along with 200 cartridges. Singh himself filed a case against Mukhtar Ansari under Crime No. 17/04 under Arms Act and Crime No. 18/04 under POTA in Chaubepur police station. According to Singh, there was pressure from the then government to withdraw the case.
Singh explains In this case, he was tortured so much that in 2004 he had to resign from the job. After this, he was sued on the complaint of vandalism and assault in the District Magistrate’s office, he was sent to jail. However, after the initiative of the present Yogi government, their cases have been dismissed.
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FIRST PUBLISHED : January 12, 2023, 11:11 IST