Asaduddin Owaisi, head of the All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) referred to the late mafia-turned-politician Mukhtar Ansari as "a martyr." Last month, Ansari passed away in Uttar Pradesh's Banda prison after cardiac arrest.

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Mukhtar Ansari's autopsy revealed that the politician-turned-gangster passed away due to cardiac arrest, refuting claims made by his relatives and other prominent figures that he had been poisoned.

Mukhtar Ansari's autopsy report indicates cardiac arrest as cause of death

Gangster-turned-politician Mukhtar Ansari was laid to rest at his ancestral Kali Bagh graveyard in Ghazipur of Uttar Pradesh state on Saturday (Mar 30). His body was brought to his hometown late Friday following the postmortem examination at Rani Durgavati Medical College in Banda district.

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Mukhtar Ansari, one of India’s most-dreaded gangster-politicians, died on Thursday (Mar 28) of cardiac arrest in a hospital in Banda in the northern Uttar Pradesh state.

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Ansari's wife, who was visiting her husband in jail, also reportedly suffered a heart attack after seeing his condition, sources said

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