Srikanth Aluri
VIJAYAWADA: Two close aides of gangster-turned-politician Mukhtar Ansari, who died in March this year, were on Monday awarded five-year imprisonment in a case related to harassment and assault of a sanitary staff during their stay in jail in 2009.
They were sent to UP’s Ghazipur district jail. Angad Rai and Gora Rai have been convicted under IPC sections 323 (voluntarily causing hurt), 504 (breach of peace), 506 (criminal intimidation) and 3(1)X of SC/ST Act by the court of special judge (SC/ST Act) Shakti Singh.
They will also have to pay a fine of Rs 10,000 each, said special prosecution officer Pradeep Chaturvedi. The case was lodged by Ghazipur district jail prisoner Jitendra Ram on April 22, 2009. In the FIR, Ram alleged that Angad and Gora, lodged in barrack number 10, had brutally beaten him up as he had failed to clean their barrack because of illness.