Varanasi: Taking 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 worth Rs 31 lakhs on Wednesday.
SP Ghazipur OP Singh said, “After it came to light that land of individuals, government and gram sabha was grabbed 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.” “On an order issued by district magistrate Ghazipur under Gangster Act, a team of Ghazipur police reached one of the houses of Mukhtar’s family in Ghazipur city with drums.
After announcing confiscation of the car of the trio, the process of seizure of the 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 has resulted in losses of above Rs 286 crores so far.
“Mukhtar’s economic empire including movable and immovable properties have been 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.