Vikas Dubey aide’s kin declared land mafia

Kanpur: Names of three women, including Prabha Bajpai, sister-in-law of slain gangster Vikas Dubey’s alleged financier Jai Bajpai, have been included in the list of 35 land mafia prepared by the revenue department on government order.
The names of Prabha Bajpai, wife of Jai’s brother Rajai Bajpai, Poonam Nishad and Suman from Gujaini have been included in this list, informed a revenue department official. The names of Brijendra Singh Chauhan and Indresh Singh Chauhan from Bidhnu have also been included.
“Similarly, one person each from Kalyanpur and Kotwali police station areas, eight from Bithoor, 14 from Gujaini, one from Kohna, three from Nazirabad, two from Chaubeypur, one each from Kakwan and Bilhaur have been listed as land mafia,” said the official further and added, “Historysheets of most of these people are open in different police stations of the city. Serious cases are also registered against some.”
To recall, the state government had already seized properties worth Rs 67 crore belonging to slain gangster Vikas Dubey and his relatives. Attachment orders for these properties were issued by the court of the district magistrate. The 13 immovable and 10 movable properties that were attached are in the names of Vikas Dubey’s wife Richa Dubey, his mother Sarla Dubey and two sons Akash and Shanu. The properties were located in the Bikru village, Chaubeypur, Kanpur Dehat and Lucknow.
Vikas Dubey was the main accused in the July 3, 2020 ambush in which eight police personnel were massacred when they reportedly went to arrest him in a case. He was arrested from Madhya Pradesh and later killed in a shootout with the police. His five aides also met a similar fate.
The district administration had bulldozed his house in the Bikru village where the incident took place. In this episode, movable and immovable properties worth Rs 2.97 crore of his cashier Jaikant Bajpai had already been attached.