<p>Banda (Uttar Pradesh): The superintendent of Banda jail, where gangster-politician Mukhtar Anasari was lodged before he died last week, received a death threat on his phone, police said on Monday.</p><p>Ansari, a five-time MLA, was lodged in the Banda divisional jail. When his health deteriorated on Thursday, he was sent to a government hospital, where he later died.</p><p>According to police, an unidentified man made a threat call on the jail superintendent's phone within hours of Ansari's death.</p>.<p>Banda Additional Superintendent of Police (ASP) Lakshmi Niwas Mishra told <em>PTI</em> that a case has been registered on the matter and the security of Senior Superintendent of Banda jail, Viresh Raj Sharma, has also been stepped up.</p><p>In his complaint, Sharma said on the intervening night of March 28 and March 29, an unknown person made a phone call from a land line number on his government (CUG) mobile phone and threatened to kill him.</p><p>Ansari, 63, died around 10.30 pm on march 28 at Rani Durgawati Medical College after being taken there from Banda jail when his health deteriorated.</p>.Mukhtar Ansari, aged 30, showed no fear of law: Delhi cop who arrested him in 1993.<p> A post-mortem confirmed that he died of cardiac arrest. However, a magisterial inquiry was ordered as opposition parties raised questions over Ansari's death, amid allegations by his family that he died due to 'slow poisoning' in Banda jail.</p><p>He was laid to rest in Ghazipur on Saturday amid a blanket of security as a large crowd took part in the funeral procession. PTI COR SAB SKY SKY</p>
<p>Banda (Uttar Pradesh): The superintendent of Banda jail, where gangster-politician Mukhtar Anasari was lodged before he died last week, received a death threat on his phone, police said on Monday.</p><p>Ansari, a five-time MLA, was lodged in the Banda divisional jail. When his health deteriorated on Thursday, he was sent to a government hospital, where he later died.</p><p>According to police, an unidentified man made a threat call on the jail superintendent's phone within hours of Ansari's death.</p>.<p>Banda Additional Superintendent of Police (ASP) Lakshmi Niwas Mishra told <em>PTI</em> that a case has been registered on the matter and the security of Senior Superintendent of Banda jail, Viresh Raj Sharma, has also been stepped up.</p><p>In his complaint, Sharma said on the intervening night of March 28 and March 29, an unknown person made a phone call from a land line number on his government (CUG) mobile phone and threatened to kill him.</p><p>Ansari, 63, died around 10.30 pm on march 28 at Rani Durgawati Medical College after being taken there from Banda jail when his health deteriorated.</p>.Mukhtar Ansari, aged 30, showed no fear of law: Delhi cop who arrested him in 1993.<p> A post-mortem confirmed that he died of cardiac arrest. However, a magisterial inquiry was ordered as opposition parties raised questions over Ansari's death, amid allegations by his family that he died due to 'slow poisoning' in Banda jail.</p><p>He was laid to rest in Ghazipur on Saturday amid a blanket of security as a large crowd took part in the funeral procession. PTI COR SAB SKY SKY</p>