Mukhtar Ansari, a former mafia member turned politician, will have his final rites on March 30 after going into cardiac arrest. In the midst of a significant police presence  night, his lifeless body was taken to his Ghazipur home.We are unable to perform the last rites   night because of the delay in receiving the body. It's going to be finished early   I ask that you all pray for him. Sibgatullah, the older brother of Mukhtar Ansari At Mohammadabad, Ghazipur, a sizable crowd attends the funeral procession of gangster-turned-politician Mukhtar Ansari. Watch the video down below. Mukhtar Ansari passed away on Thursday night at a hospital in Banda, Uttar Pradesh, from cardiac arrest. He was taken in "an unconscious state" from the district jail to the Rani Durgavati Medical College Hospital in Banda, where he subsequently passed away. But according to Ansari's brother and son, the mobster was fed "slow poison" while he was inside. AIMIM chairman Asaduddin Owaisi and RJD leader Tejashwi Yadav were among the lawmakers who echoed the accusations of poisoning and called for an investigation. Chief Judicial Magistrate Bhagwan Das Gupta has since ordered a judicial investigation into Ansari's death case.According to officials, a post-mortem will be performed by a panel of two doctors and a videographer. The post-mortem examination confirmed cardiac arrest as the cause of death and rejected the claims of "slow poison."It was discovered that a heart attack (myocardial infarction) was the cause of death. Five doctors made up the team that performed the autopsy, a senior hospital source with knowledge to the post-mortem report said PTI, requesting anonymity. Mukhtar's younger son, Umar Ansari, was present at the Rani Durgavati Medical College for the post-mortem examination. In an MP-MLA court, Mukhtar Ansari was found guilty of killing BJP MLA Krishnanand Rai and given a 10-year prison sentence. In a case involving the use of falsified paperwork to obtain a weapons license in 1990, he was found guilty on March 13, 2024, and given a life sentence.