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Absconding UP MLA Mukhtar Ahmad Ansari surrenders

     Ghazipur (Uttar Pradesh): Independent state legislature Mukhtar Ahmad Ansari, who has FIR against him for allegedly inciting communal riots in Mau, surrendered before a local court here today. Sources said Mukhtar along with several of his supporters went to the local court this morning and surrendered before a judge. Mau police had lodged an FIR against over 500 people including Ansari and BJP member of Legislative Council Ramji Singh for inciting the riots, in which nine persons were killed and about 40 people injured in the town on October 13 over Dussehra celebrations. Police on Sunday, had conducted a number of raids in Lucknow and Gazipur to nab Ansari. He was seen defying curfew, travelling in a vehicle with armed men during the riots. Afzal Ansari, Samajwadi Party MP from Ghazipur and elder brother of Mukhtar Ansari has alleged his brother was being framed at the behest of the Raj Bhawan. ''Raj Bhawan is forcing the government to take action against Mukhtar who had done nothing wrong in Mau district,'' Afzal said. The MP also showed the media a CD exhibiting how Mukhtar on the particular day of communal violence urged people to maintain harmony. Meanwhile, the indefinite curfew, which was clamped in the town of Mau on October 14 is was relaxed for the first time in ten days in some areas on Monday. Curfew was relaxed for two hours at a time in Nizamuddin, Hydel Colony, Power House Colony and Domampura.