How Delhi police prevented a hitman from killing Mukhtar Ansari in 2015

NEW DELHI: Mafia boss turned politician Mukhtar Ansari may have been murdered in detention by a “suicide bomber” back in 2015 if Delhi Police’s special cell hadn’t been in place. Two days after Ansari supposedly passed away from a heart attack while incarcerated, detectives remembered how they had stopped a last plot to murder Ansari by apprehending a notorious contract killer.

The killer, Sachidanand, also known as Lambu Sharma, is incarcerated in a Bihar prison and is now serving two death sentences in unrelated instances.
Sharma’s services were purportedly contracted by Ansari’s fiercest competitors, Brijesh Singh and Sunil Pandey, for a sum of Rs 6 crore. Sharma was renowned for his ability to make bombs and was a student of Maoist Bharat Saxena, who was imprisoned. Ansari was reportedly going to be the focus of the scheme when he went on trial. One of the plan’s primary problems was that Sharma was incarcerated in Ara, Bihar. Sharma originally planned his own little jail escape because of the type of money that was given for the murder of Ansari.

Using a bold strategy, Sharma was able to persuade Nagina, his former fiancée, to plant a “tiffin bomb” in an Ara courtroom in order to aid in his escape from jail.
It’s interesting to note that Sharma killed a witness in 2009 by carrying out an explosion in the same court. Witnesses observed Nagina on the phone on January 23, 2015, just before Sharma’s jail vehicle pulled up. She picked up her phone and started towards the vehicle. What happened next is unknown, but Nagina pretended to be a suicide bomber and set up a bomb in the courtroom, killing herself and a police officer who attempted to stop her while injuring a number of others. In the chaos on January 23, 2015, Sharma was able to escape from jail.

For the following three months, in addition to researching Ansari’s court appearance schedule, they were busy setting up explosives and another suicide bomber. For the job, Sharma received an advance of Rs 50 lakh.

Sharma is said to have given his ideas their final form in mid-June. However, an informant who knew that Sharma had purchased explosives informed the Delhi Police’s special cell.
Sharma had begun carrying out the plan on June 23 when, just in the nick of time, the special cell caught him outside a Delhi court, preventing the death of Ansari.

When Lambu was twelve years old in 2004, his criminal career began. He murdered a guy who advised him not to approach the girl since he was in love with her. The juvenile home served as his apprenticeship, teaching him the ins and outs of the trade. According to a police officer who questioned him, he seemed to be a “natural killer” who didn’t feel guilty about taking a life. With Ansari’s power and security apparatus, he thus quickly agreed to a deal that no gangster or murderer in UP and other states would have otherwise.