Jailed MLA Abbas Ansari's wife arrested for illegally meeting him, 8 suspended

Jailed MLA Abbas Ansaris wife was arrested for allegedly illegally meeting him in a prison officials room in Ragauli Jail police said on SaturdayThe jail superintendent and seven other staff members were suspended for laxity and departmental action was initiated against them officials saidChitrakoots Superintendent of Police SP Vrinda Shukla said that a raid was carried out on Friday and Nikhat Ansari was found illegally meeting her husband Abbas Ansari in the room of the deputy jailerAbbas Ansari the MLA from Mau and son of jailed mafiaturnedpolitician Mukhtar Ansari has been in prison in a money laundering case for the last three monthsApart from a mobile phone many objectionable items were recovered from Nikhat Ansari the SP saidOn the basis of the complaint of SubInspector incharge of Ragauli Jail Police Station Shyamdev Singh an FIR has been registered against five people including Jail Superintendent Ashok Sagar the deputy jailor a constable Abbass wife Nikhat and their driverAlso Read CISF official at Delhi airport refuses bribe nabs trio with fake RBI documentsThey have been booked under various IPC sections including 222 intentional omission to apprehend on the part of public servant bound to apprehend person under sentence or lawfully committed 186 Whoever voluntarily obstructs any public servant in the discharge of his public functions 506 criminal intimidation 201 which deals with tampering with evidence and 120B criminal conspiracyThe police also recovered some Saudi Arabian currency from Ansaris wifeThe SP said that Nikhat Ansari was taken into custody and after investigation the accused prisoner officials are also likely to be arrestedThe jail superintendent jailor deputy jailor and five jail warders have been suspended for laxity in discharging duties Departmental action has also been initiated against them said Anand Kumar the director general of Department of Prisons Administration and ReformThe ED had arrested Abbas Ansari 30 in November last year after a long questioning session at the agencys office in Prayagraj Uttar Pradesh in connection with the money laundering case officials had saidThis story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever