The
Allahabad High Court on Monday rejected the bail plea of Uttar Pradesh MLA
Abbas Ansari, the son of gangster-turned-politician Mukhtar Ansari, in an arms
licence case.
In
its order, the Lucknow bench of the high court stated that a large number of
metal cartridges were recovered from Abbas Ansari despite it being banned in
shooting.
Justice
Subhash Vidyarthi stated that it was a serious matter as the accused, despite
being a public representative, committed this act.
It
was submitted on behalf of Abbas Ansari, an MLA of the Suheldev Bhartiya Samaj
Party (SBSP), that he was a shooter and had a valid arms licence and hence he
was entitled to keep three arms and there was no illegality in it.
It
was also submitted that the Delhi authorities had made correspondence with the
Uttar Pradesh Police regarding the transfer of his arms licence, so it cannot
be said that he concealed information about it.
Opposing
the plea, the state's counsel said that eight arms and more than 4,000 metal
cartridges were recovered from Abbas Ansari.
An
FIR was lodged against him on October 12, 2019.
It
was alleged in the FIR that Abbas Ansari obtained a gun licence from Lucknow
and later he got it transferred to Delhi where he purchased arms based on the
changed address.
The
charge sheet in the case was filed against him on December 24, 2020.
Abbas
Ansari won the 2022 assembly polls on a ticket of the SBSP, which was then in
an alliance with the Samajwadi Party.