Lucknow,

17 June (HS): The police of Ghazipur district have frozen the total amount of

Rs 8, 91, 268 deposited in the SBI account of Afsha Ansari, the absconding wife

of mafia don Mukhtar Ansari, in Lucknow. Superintendent of Police of Ghazipur

district Irar Raja told journalists on Tuesday that the inspector of Kotwali

police station sought information about the bank account of absconding Afsha

Ansari, carrying bounty of Rs. 50,000, from the State Bank of India branch of

UP Civil Secretariat in Lucknow. After this, the inspector talked to the bank

officials and shared all the information. After this, the bank officials froze

the amount deposited in Afsha Ansari's bank account number 10223102494.

In

the police records of Ghazipur district, IS-191 gang is associated with Mukhtar

Ansari. A case has been registered against Mukhtar's wife Afsha Ansari in

Kotwali police station Ghazipur under sections 406, 420, 386, 506 for

threatening people, extortion and fraud. Also, the UP Gangster Act has been

imposed on Afsha. Since Afsha absconded, the UP Police have placed a bounty on

her.

Hindusthan Samachar / Abhishek Awasthi