What gangster Ansari’s family, lawyers said on ‘slow poison’: 10 points

Jailed gangster-turned-politician Mukhtar Ansari died on Thursday night at a hospital in Uttar Pradesh’s Banda. The gangster’s family has accused the authorities of administering “slow poison” to him. The district authorities have denied the charges and said that he died of cardiac arrest.
Mukhtar Ansari, a murder convict, was brought to the Rani Durgavati Medical College in Banda from jail in an “unconscious state”. A five-time MLA from Mau Sadar, Mukhtar Ansari had 60 criminal cases pending against him. He had been in jail since 2005.
With inputs from ANI, PTI