Up Polls 2017: Delhi HC rejects Mau MLA’s custody parole



THE RIGHT to contest an election from jail does not give anyone the right to be released for campaigning, the Delhi High Court on Monday said while rejecting custody parole to Mau MLA Mukhtar Ansari to canvass for himself in the UP polls. Ansari, a four-time MLA who recently joined BSP, was given custody parole by a trial court on February 16 till March 4, enabling him to campaign in the election. In jail since 2005 in BJP MLA Krishnanand Rai’s murder case, Ansari is an accused in more than 40 criminal cases.