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Mukhtar Ansari’s last rites today; post-mortem reveals cause of death
Mukhtar
Ansari’s younger son Umar Ansari was present when the post-mortem was conducted
at the Rani Durgavati Medical College.
Mukhtar
Ansari’s mortal remains arrived in his house in Uttar Pradesh’s Gazipur
district late on Friday night. He will laid to rest today. The city’s
administration has made heavy police deployment for the
gangster-turned-politician’s funeral.
Mukhtar
Ansari’s elder brother Sibgatullah Ansari said the last rites will be performed
on Saturday morning.
“We
received the body after some delay so the last rites cannot be performed
tonight. It will be done tomorrow morning. I request everybody to pray for him”,
Sibgatullah Ansari told on Friday.
Mukhtar
Ansari, a murder convict , died in a hospital in Banda, where he was lodged in
jail. He died of a cardiac arrest. However, his family claimed the local
administration fed him what they called “slow poison”.
The
post-mortem examination of Mukhtar Ansari confirmed that he died of cardiac
arrest and not poisoning.
A
senior hospital source, who oversaw the post-mortem examination on Friday and
had access to the report, told on condition of anonymity that” the cause of
death of Mukhtar Ansari was found to be heart attack (myocardial infarction).” The
autopsy was conducted by a panel of five doctors.
Judicial probe into Mukhtar Ansari’s
death
A three-member team will conduct a
magisterial investigation into the death of Mukhtar Ansari.
Umar Ansari had demanded that the
postmortem examination conducted in Delhi’s AIIMS.
However, the demand was rejected.
“We hope that the court will help
investigate the suspicions that we are expressing. We will consult our legal
team. We are confident that this is not a natural death but an orchestrated
murder,” he said on Friday.
Mukhtar Ansari was brought to the
hospital at 8.25 pm on Thursday. A team of nine doctors attended to him but he
died during treatment.
Sibgatullah Ansari, Mukhtar Ansari’s elder brother, claimed he wasn’t given proper treatment.
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