NEW DELHI, March 26 -- Jailed gangster-turned-politician Mukhtar Ansari was on Tuesday hospitalised for around 14 hours in Uttar Pradesh's Banda after he complained of abdominal pain.

Principal of Rani Durgavati Medical College, Banda, Sunil Kaushal said that Ansari was admitted to hospital at around 3.45 am following "pain in the stomach and problem in urinating and excretion" .

Subsequently, his problems were resolved. "At around 5.45 pm on Tuesday, Mukhtar Ansari was discharged from the ICU ward of the medical college, and the jail administration took him back to prison," he said.

Earlier, his brother and Ghazipur MP Afzal Ansari, who reached the hospital, alleged that he was given poison in jail.

An official statement of the priso...