Ansari is facing many cases in UP and elsewhere PAC platoon has been deployed outside Banda jail New Delhi: Gangster-turned-politician Mukhtar Ansari, who was allegedly suffering from severe ailments, was seen walking in Banda prison in Uttar Pradesh. While appearing for a hearing in Punjab's Mohali court, Ansari was regularly seen in a wheelchair. Upon being produced he told the court that he was not well following which the court directed the jail authorities to get his medical examination done. The dreaded mafia-don arrived in Yogi Adityanath’s UP after spending over two years in Captain Amarinder Singh’s Punjab.