Lucknow: BSP MP’s wife booked for forging papers to acquire land

LUCKNOW: An FIR was lodged against Farhat Ansari, wife of BSP MP Afzal Ansari, for allegedly forging documents to acquire a land (Nishkrant Sampatti) and building an illegal house over it in Lucknow’s Jiyamau locality.
The FIR was lodged at the Hazratganj police station by lekhpal (revenue official) of Jiyamau area, Surjan Lal, on Friday.
Nishkrant Sampatti (evacuee property) refers to the land that belonged to people who migrated to Pakistan after the Partition.Such properties then came under the ambit of the central government.
Afzal Ansari, who is MP from UP’s Ghazipur, is the brother of jailed don and BSP’s Mau MLA Mukhtar Ansari.
Farhat and some unidentified person have been booked under IPC Sections 420 (fraud) and criminal conspiracy (120-B), 447 (criminal trespassing), 448 (house trespassing) and 427 (mischief causing damage to the amount of Rs 50).
“Under a criminal conspiracy, accused Farhat Ansari and unknown people encroached evacuee property — gata number 93 which has been registered as government land. Wife of MP Afzal Ansari, Farhat constructed an illegal home on the land further causing revenue loss to the government,” read the FIR.
Earlier, Farhat Ansari had moved the high court to prevent the Lucknow Development Authority from demolishing her house in Jiyamau. In an order passed on September 29 this year, the then LDA vice-chairman had cancelled the map of the said house on the grounds that it had been constructed on evacuee property.
Following the plea, a Lucknow bench had restrained government authorities from demolishing the house and directed the two sides to maintain the status quo.
In August this year, lekhpal Surjan Lal of Jiyamau had also lodged an FIR with Hazratganj police against Mukhtar Ansari and his sons, Umar and Abbas, for forgery, conspiracy, illegal construction through the possession of government property. In August, LDA had also demolished two buildings said to have been illegally constructed by Mukhtar Ansari’s family members in Lucknow’s Dalibagh area.