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Even cattle, liquor mafia in east UP amassed riches worth crores

Varanasi: The police crackdown on organised crime targeting gangsters has revealed that not only the notorious dons running extortion rackets, grabbing land and contracts in government departments but even cattle and liquor mafia have amassed huge wealth running into crores of rupees.

Police have been seizing moveable and immoveable properties of criminals and are still finding more.



The details of property confiscated by police till now reveal that even less known cattle and liquor mafia have become millionaires by accumulating wealth generated through illegal means.

ADG Varanasi zone Brij Bhushan said, “Apart from the henchmen of jailed mafia don and MLA Mukhtar Ansari, many other gangsters have faced action in the districts of Varanasi zone, especially in Jaunpur and Mau, in the past week.”

The investigation and action initiated by Jaunpur police against gangs involved in cattle and liquor smuggling brought surprising facts to the fore.

SP Jaunpur Ashok Kumar said, “On August 4, we confiscated property worth Rs 3.05 crore of nine gangsters, including Nikhil Singh, Lallan Chauhan, Mangal Chauhan, Dangal alias Dharmendra Chauhan (liquor smugglers), Subhash Yadav, and Shahnawaj (cattle smuggler). They owned luxury SUVs apart from moveable and immoveable properties.”

“Before this, moveable and immoveable properties worth Rs 2.27 crore of cattle and liquor smugglers Hargun Gautam, Danish Qureshi, Vinay Sharma, Ravi Yadav, Pappu Yadav, Roshan Singh, Rampher Verma, Brijesh Kumar Gautam and Ramashankar alias Bhola Singh had been confiscated,” Kumar added.

Mau Police stumbled upon a newly constructed building worth Rs 1.59 crore and found it was owned by jailed gangster Ramesh Singh alias Kaka. The Mau police confiscated the property created by the proceeds of illegal trades.

SP Mau Anurag Arya said, “A plot and two-storied building constructed on it with illegally earned money by Kaka were seized on August 2. A total of 64 criminal cases are lodged against Kaka while his son Susdhir Singh is also a gangster.”

Two days before initiating action against Kaka, Mau cops had seized property worth Rs 60.70 lakh of gangster Kifayatullah, a close accomplice of Mukhtar’s henchman Ankur Rai, said Arya.

ADG Varanasi zone Brij Bhushan said the process of booking Mukhtar’s henchmen and fish trade mafia Mohd Salim, Rambalak Sahani, Gurucharan Singh and Santosh Yadav, who were arrested with huge consignment of fishes of banned species on June 30, has been initiated and their illegally amassed wealth and properties would also be seized soon.

Police started confiscating property of gangsters in east UP soon after targeting the henchmen of Mukhtar Ansari in May-end as a strategy to weaken them financially and breaking the economic backbone of organised crime in state.

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