Coroner also to Bahubali leader Mukhtar Ansari, who is lodged in UP jail

New Delhi, April 25, 2021

Bahubali MLA and leader Mukhtar Ansari, who is lodged in UP's Banda jail, has contracted the corona. A team from the health department took his corona test on Saturday.

Mukhtar Ansari is currently in stable condition. The UP government had fought a long legal battle to bring Mukhtar Ansari back from Punjab. Ansari was on his way to Punjab to avoid arrest. The court had ordered to hand over the custody of Ansari to the UP government.

He is currently lodged in Banda Jail. So far, 76 people have died from corona in the district.