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ON March 6, Dhananjay Singh, mafia don and former MP of Jaunpur, was convicted by a local MP-MLA court in a case of kidnapping, extortion and criminal conspiracy from back in May 2020. Dhananjay, 48, and his aide Santosh Vikram Singh, were sentenced to seven years in a case relating to the abduction of a Jal Nigam project manager, Abhinav Singhal.
Purvanchal (eastern Uttar Pradesh), which includes places like Jaunpur, Azamgarh, Gorakhpur, Varanasi and Mau, is home to a number of notorious , so no surprises that Dhananjay made the national headlines the next day. What did surprise was that this was the don’s first conviction ever even though he has