New Delhi: Afshan Ansari, wife of Bahujan Samaj Party MLA Mukhtar Ansari, has expressed fears that he may have a fake encounter on the way while bringing UP from Punjab. In this regard, Mukhtar Ansari’s wife has sent a letter to the President on Wednesday.
She said in the letter that the family of the applicant is frightened and deeply concerned about the safety of her husband’s life due to the previous activities done by some officers of the Uttar Pradesh government.
In her letter, Afshan Ansari claimed that her husband, who is a BSP MLA from Mau, is an eyewitness in a case and the accused BJP MLC is threatening to kill him in connivance with the government machinery.
Afshan Ansari said she fears that her husband might be killed “in the guise of a fake encounter” during his transfer from Ropar jail in Punjab to Uttar Pradesh’s Banda prison.
According to the Supreme Court’s March 26 order, Mukhtar Ansari has to be transferred to Uttar Pradesh’s Banda jail in two weeks. Ansari’s wife said she is frightened because of the past actions of some officers of the Uttar Pradesh government and is deeply concerned about the safety of his life.
“If my husband is sent to Uttar Pradesh without fixing responsibility for the safety of his life, then surely he would be killed by creating a false story. Therefore, it is a plea to the President to order that my husband is protected,” Afshan Ansari said in the letter.
She also urged that if it is required to produce Ansari in court, the President should order the government to arrange central security force personnel “to accompany him from prison to court and back”.
