NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Monday granted bail to Umar Ansari, son of late gangster-turned-politician Mukhtar Ansari, in a criminal case registered against him during the 2022 assembly elections for alleged violation of the model code of conduct.
A two-judge bench of the top court, led by Justice Hrishikesh Roy and Justice Prashant Kumar Mishra granted relief to Umar Ansari after hearing from his senior lawyer Kapil Sibal that other accused has been granted regular bail in the matter.
Taking these submissions into record, the apex court granted him bail, with certain conditions.
While asking Ansari to participate in the trial of the case, in which he was allegedly involved, the top court made it clear that the offending statement given by him is a matter of trial.
The Uttar Pradesh government objected to the plea of Ansari seeking bail and asked the apex court that he must first surrender before trial court and then seek bail.
An FIR was lodged on March 4, 2022 at Kotwali police station in Mau district against Abbas Ansari (SBSP candidate from Mau Sadar seat), Umar Ansari and 150 unknown people.
It was alleged in the FIR that on March 3, 2022 at Pahadpura ground, Abbas Ansari, Umar Ansari, and organiser Mansoor Ahmad Ansari in a public meeting called for settling a score with the Mau administration.
It was a case of violation of the election code of conduct.
Jailed gangster-turned-politician Mukhtar Ansari died of cardiac arrest at a hospital in Banda in Uttar Pradesh on March 28.