UP MADARSA BOARD TO REGISTER WITH COBSE SOON
BJP MLA Krishnanand Rai was murdered on November 29, 2005 in Ghazipur along with six others
LUCKNOW : Students wanting to appear in the intermediate examination from madarsa board in Uttar Pradesh (UP) will now be able to pursue higher education by enrolling in central universities.
Following instructions of the chief minister Yogi Adityanath, the UP madarsa board has decided to register itself with the Council of Board of School Education (COBSE) soon. “This step of the government will pave way for the madarsa Board students to enroll themselves in the central universities,” said Raghvendra Pratap Singh, registrar of UP madarsa board.
LUCKNOW: With gangster turned politician Mukhtar Ansari back in Uttar Pradesh (UP) jail, the family of late BJP MLA Krishnanand Rai has expressed hope that many, like them, will now be able to get justice.
“Like us, many will get justice now,” said Krishnanand Rai’s wife Alka Rai, now a BJP MLA from Mohammedabad assembly segment that was once represented by her husband.
“I am thankful to chief minister Yogi Adityanath and his government for having effectively pursued the case to bring back to UP jail,” she said.
Krishnanand Rai was murdered on November 29, 2005 in Ghazipur along with six others. Though Mukhtar was named in the case, he was subsequently exonerated in July 2019 by a Delhi court.
Piyush Rai, son of Krishnanand Rai, said on Wednesday they had appealed (against the order of the court) in the Delhi HC and prayed for a day-to-day hearing in the case.
“Hearing in that case against Ansari is expected to begin soon. The law would take its own course, not just in our case but for others too,” said Rai adding an appeal had to be made before the Delhi HC since the trial of the case had been transferred from UP to Delhi.
Mukhtar’s transfer from Punjab to UP had happened after a bitter legal battle in the Supreme Court in which the BJP government in UP accused the Congress government in Punjab of “shielding” the incarcerated lawmaker for several months by not letting the state take his custody.
Ansari has been lodged in Rupnagar jail since January 2019 in connection with an extortion case. Alka Rai had written many letters to ConMukhtar gress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra seeking help in getting Mukhtar transferred to UP a jail.
According to the UP police, Mukhtar Ansari faces several cases in the state, including murder, attempt to murder, cheating and conspiracy, of which 10 are at the trial stage.
A Delhi court had in July 2019 acquitted Mukhtar, his politician brother Afzal Ansari and five others in connection with Rai’s murder. The CBI had later charged the gangster turned politician of planning the murder.
The court, while acquitting the seven accused, had said that the outcome of the trial would have been different had the prosecution witnesses not turned hostile. It had highlighted the absence of a witness protection scheme during the trial.
Afzal Ansari had recently claimed that his brother was innocent and would be released soon.
UP minister Siddharth Nath Singh, meanwhile, said the state government had to make several efforts to ensure Mukhtar’s transfer and accused the Congress government in Punjab of extending ‘good treatment’ to Mukhtar.