VARANASI: Initiating action under Gangster Act against jailed mafia don and MLA Mukhtar Ansari’s wife Afsha Ansari and her brothers- Anwar Shehjad and Sharjil Raza the Ghazipur police seized their Audi car of worth Rs 31 lakhs on Wednesday.
SP Ghazipur OP Singh said that following exposure of grabbing of land of individuals, government and gram sabha by a company owned by Afsha Ansari and her brothers cases were lodged against them.
Apart from booking them under Gangster Act their illegal possession from those plots had been removed, he added.
On the order of district magistrate Ghazipur issued under Gangster Act, the team of Ghazipur cops reached one of the houses of Mukhtar’s family in the Ghazipur city with drums.
Following announcement of confiscation of the car of trio, the process of seizure of Audi car of Rs 31 lakhs was completed, he added.
Mukhtar, his family and gang members are on the radar of police especially since May 2020 as action initiated by police and local administration in Mau, Ghazipur, Azamgarh, Jaunpur, Varanasi and other districts against them resulted losses of above Rs 286 crores so far.
Mukhtar’s economic empire including movable and immovable properties are being confiscated since then while cost of buildings demolished and illegally captured land from which their possessions were removed has gone above Rs 140.55 crores, said police.
Most of the immovable properties garnered by Mukhtar gang by grabbing government land was owned by a company Vikas Construction led by Mukhtar’s wife Afsha Ansari.