The Allahabad High Court on Tuesday gave Abbas Ansari, the son of jailed gangster-turned-politician Mukhtar Ansari, interim protection from arrest over his speech durin﷽g an election meeting threatening to "settle the account" with government officials.
A bench of Justices Sun🔯ita Agarwal and Vikas Kunvar Srivastav ordered that the petitioner, Abbas Ansari, shall not be arrested till April 27 and he will 🥀be under obligation to cooperate in the investigation.
"In case of any act of the petitioner of non-cooperation in the ongoing investigation, it would be open for the respo♛ndents to approach this court for vacation of this interim order," the bench said.
The case was registered on March 4 against Ansari, who won the Uttar Pradesh Assembly polls from Mau on the ticket of the Suheldev Bharatiya Samaj Party (SBSP), which was in a tie-up with the Ak꧂hilesh Yadav-led Samajwadi Party.
Ansari moved the court challenging the FIR and also🐎 sought protect♛ion from arrest in the matter.
Hi🥀s counsel submitted that the local police was trying to arrest him i🎃n the case by adding more grave charges.
The petitioner is an elec𓆉ted MLA of Mau and he is being targeted to not allow him to take an oath of 🧔office, the counsel said.
The Election🌟 Commission had then barred Ansari from campaigning for 24 hours for his speꦑech.
In a purported video clip of his speech, Ansari is seen telling a crowd during an election event that he has talked toꩲ Yadav to make sure that no transfer or posting takes place in the six months after the party comes to power in the state.
"Jo yahan hai wo yahan hi rahega, pehle🌠 hisaab-kitab hoga uske baad unke jaane ke certific﷽ate par mohar lagaya jaega (Those who are here, will remain here. The first account will be settled with them and only after that their departure papers will be stamped," Ansari is purportedly seen saying in the video.
The SP-ꦑled alliance lost the election held over February and March to the BJP.
