Police on Monday seized a complete of 13 properties price ₹9.83 crore owned by gangster-turned-politician Anupam Dubey and his relations throughout three Uttar Pradesh districts — Farrukhabad, Mainpuri, and Hardoi.
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Balraj Bhati, station home officer of Mau Darwaza, Farrukhabad, acknowledged that the seizures have been carried out below the provisions of Gangsters Act, below which Dubey had been booked.
In Mohalla Duhiya of Farrukhabad, eight residential properties have been seized. Notices have been served on the occupants, who have been instructed to vacate the premises inside eight days. The mixed worth of those properties is estimated at ₹1.64 crore.
Moreover, a 55 square-metre plot valued at ₹1.34 crore was seized in Mohalla Dalmandi, Mohammadabad.
In Hardoi district, authorities seized two properties in Sawayajpur price ₹1.94 crore, whereas in Mainpuri district, property price ₹2.30 crore have been confiscated at two places below the Bhogaon police station in Naviganj.
Dubey, a former BSP chief, has a prison report with 63 circumstances in opposition to his identify, together with 28 associated to homicide, kidnapping, extortion, and land grabbing. His intensive affect enabled him to suppress proof and intimidate witnesses, leading to extended authorized proceedings.
In 2023, Dubey was convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment in reference to the 1996 homicide of Ram Vilas Yadav, an inspector with the Financial Offences Wing who was killed on a prepare in Kanpur. Dubey is at present lodged in Agra jail.
His authorized troubles escalated when former ADG (Kanpur) Bhanu Bhaskar started reopening his previous circumstances in 2021-22. Since then, police have seized property price ₹112 crore in and round Farrukhabad. Amongst these was a resort within the coronary heart of the district, which was demolished after it was discovered to have been constructed illegally.
Dubey’s brothers, Amit Dubey and Anurag Dubey, are additionally implicated. Amit is at present in jail, whereas Anurag stays at giant. A money reward of ₹50,000 has been introduced for info resulting in Anurag’s arrest.