Last Update: May 01, 2023, 22:51 IST
Afzal Ansari was convicted in a case of kidnapping and murder and sentenced to 4 years. (PTI)
Lok Sabha member from Ghazipur Afzal Ansari was sentenced to four years imprisonment by the MP/MLA court on Saturday.
BSP MP Afzal Ansari was on Monday disqualified as a member of the Lok Sabha after he was convicted and sentenced to four years in jail in a kidnapping and murder case.
Ansari was a Lok Sabha member from Ghazipur, and was sentenced to four years in jail by the MP/MLA court on Saturday, news agency PTI Said.
His brother, criminal-turned-politician Mukhtar Ansari, was also convicted in the same case and sentenced to 10 years in prison.
What was his crime?
The brothers were booked under the UP Gangsters Act for the November 29, 2005 murder of then Ghazipur MLA Krishnanand Rai and the 1997 abduction and murder of Varanasi-based businessman Nand Kishore Rungta.
“Consequent to his conviction… Afzal Ansari, Member of Lok Sabha representing Ghazipur Parliamentary Constituency of Uttar Pradesh, is disqualified from the membership of Lok Sabha with effect from the date of his conviction i.e. 29th April, 2023 in terms of the provisions of Article 102 ( According to the notification of the Lok Sabha Secretariat, 1)(e) of the Constitution of India read with section 8 of the Representation of the People Act, 1951.
congress leader Rahul Gandhi He recently lost his Lok Sabha membership after being convicted and sentenced to two years in jail in a 2019 defamation case.
with PTI inputs
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