UP police question Mukhtar Ansari in Banda jail case

BARABANKI : The Uttar Pradesh police have questioned gangster-turned politician Mukhtar Ansari in Banda jail in connection with a case filed here over alleged fraud in registration of an ambulance used to ferry him to a court in Punjab, officials said.

The case was registered in Barabanki in April after the documents of the ambulance were found to be fake, the UP police had said then.Superintendent of police of Barabanki Yamuna Prasad said on Friday that a special investigation team questioned Ansari over two days during which his relations with some people in Barabanki came to light.

They will also be examined soon, he said.