Lucknow (Uttar Pradesh) [India], March 29 (ANI): Former DSP Shailendra Singh alleged on Friday that the Mulayam Singh government had wanted to protect the gangster-turned-politician Mukhtar Asnari, who died at a hospital in Banda, Uttar Pradesh, on Thursday. He also claimed that top-ranking police officials were “pressurised,” and he was even made to resign within fifteen days when the Samajwadi Party was in power in the state. Speaking to ANI, Singh said, “20 years ago, in 2004, Mukhtar Ansari’s empire was at its peak. He would move around in open jeeps in areas where curfew was imposed. That…