India, March 28 -- KANPUR A year after gangster-turned-politician Mukhtar Ansari's death following a heart attack while being lodged in Banda jail on March 28, 2024, the jail administration has begun the process of de-sealing his barrack and transferring his belongings to his family members.

Ansari had been lodged in an isolated barrack, number 16, of the jail. He was shifted to Banda Medical College and died due to cardiac arrest, according to a magisterial inquiry report. However, his family claimed poisoning and moved the Supreme Court.

The barrack was sealed in the presence of a magistrate the day after Mukhtar Ansari was pronounced dead at the medical college, with all his belongings inside. It had remained unopened since then.

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