As per the prosecution case, the complainant jailer SK Awasthi was posted at the District Jail, Lucknow in the year 2003.
On April 23, 2003, some persons came to meet Ansari in jail. When the jailer refused to allow them to meet Ansari, the MLA came to the jailer’s office and allegedly took exception to the same. Ansari even threatened to get the jailer killed and abused him. He then took a revolver from one of the persons who had come to visit him and pointed it towards the jailer, it was claimed.
A First Information Report (FIR) was subsequently lodged against Ansari, after which a chargesheet was filed under various provisions of the Indian Penal Code, including criminal intimidation.
After the trial court had acquitted Ansari, the State moved the High Court in appeal.
The High Court overturned the trial court verdict and held that the evidence on record proved that Ansari had taken a pistol/revolver from a visitor and pointed it towards the jailer and threatened to kill him.
Source: Barandbench
