The <a href="https://www.mid-day.com/search/Lucknow-all" target="_blank" rel="none noopener">Lucknow</a> bench of Allahabad High Court on Wednesday convicted former MLA Mukhtar Ansari and sentenced him to two years in prison for threatening a jailer and pointing a pistol at him.
Justice DK Singh passed the order while allowing an appeal by the <a href="https://www.mid-day.com/search/Uttar-all" target="_blank" rel="none noopener">Uttar Pradesh</a> government.
The case dates to 2003 when Lucknow district prison jailer SK Awasthi lodged an FIR with Alambagh police alleging that he was threatened for ordering a search of the people who came to meet Ansari in prison.
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Awasthi also alleged that Ansari had pointed a pistol at him while abusing him.
A trial court acquitted Ansari in this case, but the government filed an appeal.
Ansari is currently lodged in Banda jail.&nbsp;
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