Property of Mukhtar Ansari’s aide seized in Jaunpur

VARANASI: In its drive against the network and economic empire of the jailed mafia don Mukhtar Ansari, the police confiscated properties worth Rs 3.71 crore of one of his aides and fish mafia Ravindra Kumar Nishad in Jaunpur district on Thursday.
According to Jaunpur SP Ashok Kumar, Nishad’s properties including a shopping mall worth of Rs. 2.9 crore at Jogiyapur, vehicles, house, and bank balance have been confiscated under Gangster Act.Nishad was arrested on July 4 and booked under Gangster Act.
In Mau, the wife of a henchman of Mukhtar was also booked for procuring arm licence by hiding the crime history of her husband. Mau SP Anurag Arya said that a case was registered with Kopaganj police against Sarojlata Pandey, wife of Rakesh Pandey alias Hanuman Pandey for hiding facts in procurement of a gun in 2005.
Earlier, the properties of over Rs 6 crore of another jailed mafia don Dhruv Singh alias Kuntu Singh, who hit the limelight after the murder of former MLA Sarvesh Singh Sippu in 2013, had also been confiscated in Azamgarh district.
The confiscated properties included two houses and a plot in the name of Kuntu’s wife Vandana Singh and a polytechnic college campus. Kuntu is presently lodged in Ballia jail, He is involved in 40 cases including murder and others.
Besides, the Mau police had also confiscated property worth of over Rs 60 lakh of Mukhtar’s sharp-shooter and land mafia Brijesh Sonkar, who was booked under Gangster Act. He was co accused with Mukhtar in Ram Singh Maurya murder case in Dakshintola area in Mau, in 2010.
Mukhtar’s associates have been in police radar since the drive against the organised gangs started in May end.
ADG Varanasi zone Brij Bhushan said the drive against the mafia elements, gangsters and their close ones would continue.