Nov 22, 2024 09:11 PM IST
On Tuesday, the division had hooked up Prajapati’s 4 ‘benami’ properties within the type of plots price ₹1.21 crore at completely different areas in Lucknow
LUCKNOW The earnings tax (I-T) division is prone to connect 18 extra ‘benami’ properties of jailed former cupboard minister Gayatri Prajapati that have been bought within the identify of different individuals, beneath the provisions of Prohibition of Benami Property Transaction Act, 1988, mentioned officers.
The division had just lately recognized 18 ‘benami’ properties of the previous minister in Barabanki, Rae Bareli, Unnao and Sultanpur. (File Picture)
On Tuesday, the division had hooked up Prajapati’s 4 ‘benami’ properties within the type of plots price ₹1.21 crore at completely different areas in Lucknow.
The division had just lately recognized 18 ‘benami’ properties of the previous minister in Barabanki, Raebareli, Unnao and Sultanpur. It was planning to ship notices to the purchasers of those properties and connect them by means of the due authorized course of, mentioned a senior I-T official.
The Enforcement Directorate (ED) had confiscated properties price ₹65 crore of Prajapati’s members of the family in Amethi in reference to a case of disproportionate property (DA) lodged in opposition to him in December 2022.
The ED had registered the DA case in opposition to Prajapati on the idea of findings that surfaced throughout searches performed at seven areas of the previous minister, his members of the family in addition to aides in Lucknow, Kanpur and Amethi on December 30, 2020.
Prajapati was the mining minister throughout Samajwadi Get together authorities between 2012-2017. He was in jail since March 2017, after a girl lodged an FIR in opposition to him and his associates alleging gangrape, in 2016 at Gautampalli police station of Lucknow.
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