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Lucknow: In a major relief to gangster Mukhtar Ansari’s son Abbas Ansari, the Allahabad High Court on Wednesday stayed the order of the Special MP/MLA court in Mau district sentencing him to two year’s imprisonment in a case of hate speech.
Abbas Ansari, an MLA of the Suheldev Bhartiya Samaj Party (SBSP), an alliance partner of the BJP-led government in Uttar Pradesh, will not lose his membership of the House as a result of the HC decision.
The HC had earlier reserved his judgement in the matter after hearing the concerned parties.
Ansari was convicted by the lower court in a hate speech case lodged against him during the 2022 assembly polls in the state. He had challenged the order in the HC.
According to the prosecution, Ansari had, while addressing an election rally in March 2022, threatened the Mau district administration and said that they would teach it a lesson after the polls.
A case was lodged in this connection by the police at the Kotwali police station.