Umar Ansari arrested in Lucknow: Accused of forging paperwork; tried to claim father Mukhtar Ansari’s seized property | Lucknow News

LUCKNOW: Umar Ansari, youthful son of the late gangster-turned-politician Mukhtar Ansari, was arrested late Sunday night time by Ghazipur police from the Darul Shafa space in Lucknow. The arrest was made at an MLA residence, following the registration of a prison case in opposition to him in Ghazipur. He was subsequently taken into custody and transported to Ghazipur for additional authorized proceedings.According to officers, Umar Ansari has been booked for allegedly making an attempt to fraudulently reclaim a property that had been confiscated below the Uttar Pradesh Gangsters and Anti-Social Activities (Prevention) Act. The property was earlier seized below Section 14(1) of the Act, having been linked to the prison actions of Mukhtar Ansari, who was the previous kingpin of the now-banned gang IS-191.Investigators say that Umar filed a petition in court docket to get the seized property launched. However, throughout scrutiny of court docket paperwork, it was discovered that he had allegedly submitted cast papers bearing faux signatures of his mom, Afsa Ansari. Notably, Afsa is herself a wished accused in a number of instances and carries a ₹50,000 reward on her head. Officials consider the forgery was half of a calculated plan to achieve illegal benefit in the authorized course of.Upon discovery of the cast paperwork, police registered FIR quantity 245/2025 at Muhammadabad Police Station in Ghazipur. The fees in opposition to Umar fall below sections 319(2), 318(4), 338, 336(3), and 340(2) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS), 2023.Senior police officers confirmed that Umar Ansari has been taken into custody and that additional authorized motion is underway. This occurs to be the sixth case lodged in opposition to him. The previous 5 instances embody fees of dishonest, forgery, harm to public property, and violation of the ballot code throughout the Vidhan Sabha elections of 2022.On the opposite hand his elder brother Abbas Ansari was sentenced to two years in jail in a three-year-old case associated to a controversial speech in which he allegedly threatened authorities officers on May 31. However he bought bail by the court docket later.Abbas was later disqualified from the Uttar Pradesh Assembly.Abbas, was elected MLA on a Suheldev Bharatiya Samaj Party (SBSP) ticket, made the remarks at a public assembly throughout the 2022 Assembly election interval. He has eight different instances in his title. He was caught red-handed along with his spouse in Chitrakoot jail, the place police recovered overseas foreign money.