Probe ordered into Mukhtar Ansari’s death, three-member team formed to conduct magisterial investigation

LUCKNOW: A three-member team will conduct a magisterial investigation into the death of gangster-turned-politician Mukhtar Ansari.

The Chief Judicial Magistrate Banda issued orders concerning the judicial probe. Officials said a panel of two doctors will do the post-mortem, which will be videographed.

Mukhtar Ansari’s body will be handed over to his son, Umar Ansari, following the post-mortem. Mukhtar Ansari died in a hospital in Banda, Uttar Pradesh, on Thursday.