Supreme Court conditionally suspends conviction of former BSP MP Afzal Ansari in 2007 Gangsters Act case

The Supreme Court on Thursday conditionally suspended the conviction of former BSP MP Afzal Ansari in a 2007 Gangsters Act case. A bench of Justices Surya Kant, Dipankar Datta and Ujjal Bhuyan in a majority verdict said that Ansari, a former MP from the Ghazipur constituency of Uttar Pradesh, will not cast his vote in the Lok Sabha nor draw any perk but can attend the proceedings of House. It also directed the Allahabad High Court to dispose of the former MP's criminal appeal against his conviction and sentence by June 30, 2024.