Houses of Mukhtar’s wife, in-law attached in Ghazipur & Lucknow

Varanasi: In the ongoing drive to hit the economic empire of the jailed mafia don and MLA Mukhtar Ansari, the Ghazipur district administration on Tuesday attached a Rs 2.18-crore house of his wife Afsha Ansari and brother-in-law Sharjil in Saiyyedbada area of Ghazipur district. A police team was also sent to Lucknow to attach a Rs 1-crore flat in the posh Gomti Nagar locality of Lucknow.
Till now, government action against Mukhtar, his family and gang members has caused them a cumulative loss of over Rs 292-crore.
ADG Varanasi zone Brij Bhushan on Tuesday said, “Properties worth Rs 2.18-crore that are in the name of the leader of interstate gang-191 Mukhtar Ansari’s wife Afsha Ansari and brother-in-law Sharjil Raja in Saiyyedbada locality of Ghazipur district have been attached under the Gangster Act.”
“A team has left Ghazipur for Lucknow to attach a flat in their name in Gomati Nagar area,” he said adding, “Estimated value of this flat is Rs 1-crore. With these actions, the volume of losses caused to Mukhtar, his family and gang members has crossed the mark of Rs 292-crore in east UP region,” he added.
A team led by ASP (City) Gopinath Soni reached Saiyyedbada area in Ghazipur along with heavy police force on Tuesday morning, and after the announcement of the order issued by district magistrate MP Singh for the attachment of residential building of Mukhtar’s wife and brother-in-law, the cops completed the process of seizure. Tehsildar Mukesh Singh, other officials of land revenue department and heavy police force were also present at the site.
Police records say that in the ongoing action against Mukhtar, his family and gang’s economic empire and armoury, especially after May 2020, properties of over Rs 140-crore have been demolished. Movable and immovable properties of over Rs 90-crore were seized. Moreover, illegal earning through extortion and fish trades, grabbing contracts in PWD and other government departments of Rs 60-crore of Mukhtar, his family and gang members was also checked.
Around 122 arms licences of Mukhtar’s men were cancelled, externment orders were issued against 34 while 150 booked under Gangster Act, six booked under NSA and 200 criminals and white-collared persons associated with him were sent to jail. Mukhtar, his family and gang members are on the radar of police in Mau, Ghazipur, Azamgarh, Jaunpur, Varanasi and other districts.
Immovable properties had been garnered by Mukhtar gang by grabbing government land owned by a company Vikas Construction led by Mukhtar’s wife Afsha Ansari.