New Delhi, Dec 7 (IANS) A city court Monday sought the response of Uttar Pradesh prison authorities over the failure to bring independent legislator Mukhtar Ansari before it.
Additional Sessions Judge Madhu Jain took a serious view of the Uttar Pradesh officials’ failure to bring Ansari, facing charges in a case under the Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act (MCOCA), before the court on the previous hearing of the case.

The state’s Inspector General (Jails) has been asked for his response by Dec 14.

Ansari, the legislator from Mau, is in Uttar Pradesh’s Ghazipur jail after his arrest for the murder of BJP legislator Krishnanand Rai in 2005. Jail officials said they were unable to bring him to the court as he was suffering from gastro-enteritis.

Delhi Police invoked MCOCA (Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act) against inter-state gangster Munna Bajrangi and Ansari, accused of running an organised crime syndicate.

Meanwhile, the court remanded Bajrangi, who was brought before it after his 30-day police remand ended, to judicial custody till Jan 7.

Ansari is wanted in a MCOCA case for being associated with Bajrangi in running the organised crime syndicate in the country. Bajrangi, whose real name is Prem Prakash Singh, was arrested from Mumbai recently.