Upper civil judge Ujjwal Upadhyaya sentenced mafia don Mukhtar Ansari to five and a half years in prison for threatening Nanad Kishore Rungta, the brother of VHP treasurer. The court convicted Mukhtar under section 506 and imposed a Rs 10,000 fine. The 48-page judgement stated that the imprisonment will run concurrently with the existing sentence. Mukhtar appeared before the court through video conferencing. Rungta was kidnapped in 1997, and his brother lodged an FIR against Mukhtar for threatening them to stop pursuing the case.
