3 more properties owned by Atiq attached in Prayagraj

Prayagraj: Continuing the crackdown against jailed mafia don-turned-politician Atiq Ahmad’s properties accumulated through illegal means, the district police on Thursday attached his three more properties worth crores of rupees at Khuldabad area.
Last month, Prayagraj district magistrate Bhanu Chandra Goswami had ordered attachment of six immovable properties owned by Atiq under the Gangster Act. He had also asked for a status report to be submitted on or before September 14.
SP (City) Dinesh Singh said, “Police have attached three properties of the jailed don Atiq on Thursday and also started process to attach three other properties in the coming days. The real value of the attached properties is being assessed.” The decision to attach the properties was taken after senior district police authorities had recommended action in a report to the DM. They had reasoned that the properties were allegedly accumulated through illegal means. After going through the available records, the DM had on August 28 ordered to attach all the six properties.
The SP, meanwhile, claimed that all the six properties located at Karbala, Chakia, Sultanpur Bhava (Khuldabad) and Gaus Nagar (Kareli) are being attached under the Gangster Act on the directives of the district magistrate. Three of them under the limits of Khuldabad police station were attached on Thursday. In August, the police had attached seven properties worth Rs 60 crore of the former MP and jailed don Atiq in different parts of the city.