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Sibgatullah Ansari, Mukhtar Ansari's elder brother, stated that the last rites would be performed on Saturday morning. "We received the body after some delay, so the last rites cannot be performed tonight. It will be done tomorrow morning. I request everybody to pray for him," Sibgatullah Ansari told ANI on Friday.
Mukhtar Ansari, a convicted murderer, passed away in a hospital in Banda, where he was incarcerated. He succumbed to a cardiac arrest. However, his family alleged that the local administration had slowly poisoned him.
The post-mortem examination of Mukhtar Ansari confirmed that he died of a cardiac arrest, not poisoning. A senior hospital source, who oversaw the post-mortem examination on Friday and had access to the report, told PTI on condition of anonymity that "the cause of death of Mukhtar Ansari was found to be a heart attack (myocardial infarction)." The autopsy was conducted by a panel of five doctors.
Mukhtar Ansari's younger son, Umar Ansari, was present when the post-mortem was conducted at the Rani Durgavati Medical College.
A three-member team will conduct a magisterial investigation into the death of Mukhtar Ansari. Umar Ansari had demanded that the postmortem examination be conducted at Delhi's AIIMS. However, the demand was rejected.
Umar Ansari expressed on Friday that the probe will help alleviate the family's concerns. "We hope that the court will help investigate the suspicions that we are expressing. We will consult our legal team. We are confident that this is not a natural death but an orchestrated murder," he said on Friday.
Mukhtar Ansari was admitted to the hospital at 8.25 pm on Thursday. A team of nine doctors attended to him, but he died during treatment. Sibgatullah Ansari, Mukhtar Ansari's elder brother, claimed he wasn't given proper treatment.