Abbas Ansari, son of late Mukhtar Ansari and MLA from Mau Sadar, has been sentenced to two years in jail for a 2022 hate speech. The conviction may lead to his disqualification from the Uttar Pradesh Assembly.
Mau: On May 30, In a major legal development from Uttar Pradesh, Abbas Ansari, the MLA from Mau Sadar and son of the late gangster-turned-politician Mukhtar Ansari, has been sentenced to two years’ imprisonment in a 2022 hate speech case.
The judgment was delivered by a special MP-MLA court in Mau on Saturday. As per the Representation of the People Act, this conviction could lead to his disqualification from the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly, since the law mandates that any elected representative sentenced to two years or more of imprisonment loses their seat.
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Abbas Ansari had contested and won the Mau Sadar seat in the 2022 Assembly elections on a Suheldev Bharatiya Samaj Party (SBSP) ticket, which was then allied with the Samajwadi Party.
During a public rally on March 3, 2022, held at the Paharpur ground in Mau, Abbas made threatening remarks against the district administration, saying he would “settle scores and teach them a lesson” after the elections.
Based on these remarks, Abbas was booked under Indian Penal Code sections 189 (threat to cause harm to public servant), 153-A (promoting enmity between different groups on the basis of religion, caste, place of birth, residence and language and spoiling the harmony), 171F (undue influence in election), and 506 (criminal intimidation).
Defence lawyer Daroga Singh told PTI that videos of the speech were submitted as evidence, and said,
“After hearing both sides, special MP/MLA court Judge K P Singh convicted Abbas Ansari on Saturday.”
The court sentenced Abbas to two years each under Sections 189 and 153-A, one year under Section 506, and six months under Section 171-F.
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However, all the sentences will run simultaneously, which means Abbas will serve a total of two years in jail and has also been fined Rs 2,000.
Singh further stated,
“This order of the special court will now be challenged in the sessions court.”
For now, Abbas Ansari has been granted temporary bail. In the same case, Abbas’s partner Mansoor Ansari has also been sentenced to six months’ imprisonment for conspiring, while the court acquitted Abbas’s younger brother Umar Ansari.
Abbas had entered electoral politics in 2022, winning the Mau Sadar seat for the first time, a constituency long represented by his father Mukhtar Ansari, a controversial figure in Uttar Pradesh politics.
Mukhtar, a five-time MLA from Mau Sadar, passed away in March 2024 due to cardiac arrest at a hospital in Uttar Pradesh while in judicial custody at Banda district jail.
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He had been behind bars since 2005 in various cases across Punjab and Uttar Pradesh, with over 60 criminal cases pending against him, and had been convicted in eight of them since September 2022.
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