Mukhtar Ansari was given slow poison in jail: Son Umar

Gangster-turned-politician Mukhtar Ansari was subjected to slow poisoning in jail, his son Umar Ansari alleged on Friday, hours after the former died of cardiac arrest. Last week, Ansari was hospitalised after he claimed he was poisoned. He also wrote to the Chief Judicial Magistrate in Mau court on March 21 claiming poison was added to his dinner on March 19.