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  1. Mar 30, 2024 · Ajay Rai, Congress's Varanasi candidate, saw his brother Awadhesh Rai being killed by gangster Mukhtar Ansari in 1991. In 2023, Ansari was convicted, ending Ajay Rai's 32 year-battle for justice.

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  2. Jun 8, 2023 · Five-time MLA, ‘associate’ of gangster-turned-politician Brijesh Singh, and Cong candidate against PM Modi from Varanasi in 2014, 2019, Ajay Rai was a witness and complainant in the 1991 murder of brother Awadhesh, for which Ansari has been convicted now

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  3. Jun 5, 2023 · Mukhtar Ansari, a gangster-turned-politician, was Monday sentenced to life imprisonment in the Awadhesh Rai murder case of 1991. Awadhesh Rai was the elder brother of Ajay Rai, a Congress leader. He was shot dead outside his house at Maldiya in Varanasi when he was 30 years old.

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  4. Mar 29, 2024 · The fight for supremacy resulted in Ansari killing Awadhesh Rai, a local politician, the brother of Ajay Rai, the Pradesh Congress president, in 1991. It is amongst the eight cases Ansari was convicted for and was sentenced to life imprisonment.

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  5. Jun 5, 2023 · Lucknow: Nearly 32 years after Congress leader Awadhesh Rai was gunned down outside his house, a Varanasi MP/MLA court Monday handed life imprisonment to jailed gangster-turned-politician Mukhtar Ansari and imposed a fine of Rs 1.20 lakh on him in connection with the case.

  6. Jun 5, 2023 · A Varanasi court on Monday sentenced gangster-politician Mukhtar Ansari to life imprisonment for the murder of Congress leader Awadhesh Rai that took place more than 30 years ago, news agency ANI reported.

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  8. Jun 5, 2023 · Gangster-politician Mukhtar Ansari was sentenced to life in jail today by a Varanasi special court for the murder of Awadhesh Rai 32 years ago. The brother of Congress leader Ajay Rai was shot dead outside his residence in Varanasi’s Lahurabir on August 3, 1991.