Lagatar24 Desk
Varanasi, June 5: Mukhtar Ansari, a gangster-politician, was found guilty and given a life sentence by a Varanasi court in Uttar Pradesh for the 32-year-old murder of Awadhesh Rai.
Awadhesh Rai, a Congress leader and the brother of former MLA Ajay Rai, was fatally shot on August 3, 1991, in front of Ajay Rai’s Varanasi house.
Earlier, the Special Court concluded the hearing after arguments on May 19, reserved its order, and fixed June 5 as the date to deliver it.
Mukhtar Ansari, Bhim Singh, and former MLA Abdul Kalim were all mentioned by Ajay Rai in the FIR in this case.
“Mukhtar has been convicted in the Awadhesh Rai murder case of 1991. The court will pronounce its judgment later in the day,” a lawyer told reporters in Varanasi.
Reacting to the development, Ajay Rai said, “This is the end of our many years of waiting. I, my parents, Awadhesh’s daughter and the whole family kept patience… Governments came and went and Mukhtar strengthened himself.”
“But we did not give up. Because of our lawyers’ efforts, today the court has found Mukhtar guilty in the murder case of my brother,” Rai added.
