Mau, May 31 -- The Chief Judicial Magistrate (MP-MLA) court in Mau district on Saturday awarded two years' imprisonment to Suheldev Bhartiya Samaj Party MLA and dead mafia don Mukhtar Ansari's son Abbas Ansari in connection with the hate speech case of 2022.

Meanwhile, Abbas Ansari's close aide, Mansoor Ansari, was also sentenced to six months of imprisonment.

Ansari was booked for delivering a provocative speech against the Mau district administration while the model code of conduct was in place.

Earlier, the Allahabad High Court refused anticipatory bail to him in the same case. He approached the top court against the High Court's December 2023 order.

On December 19, 2023, the High Court rejected the anticipatory bail application of...