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  • I-T dept identifies Mukhtar Ansari’s 2 dozen ‘benami’ assets worth Rs 127 cr

    I-T dept identifies Mukhtar Ansari’s 2 dozen ‘benami’ assets worth Rs 127 cr

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    New Delhi: The Income Tax Department has identified about two dozen ‘benami’ assets worth Rs 127 crore of gangster-turned-politician Mukhtar Ansari in Uttar Pradesh and other locations as part of a “comprehensive” action against him and his associates, sources said Wednesday.

    The department’s Lucknow benami assets investigation unit on Tuesday attached the first benami property in this case, a land parcel located in Ghazipur district worth about Rs 1.29 crore (book value). The market value of this property is about 12 crore, according to an attachment order of the department.

    The benamidar (in whose name a benami property is standing) in this case has been identified as an alleged associate and neighbour of Ansari, Ganesh D Mishra while the “beneficial owner” has been named as Ansari in the attachment order.

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    Benami means ‘no name’ or ‘without name’ and such properties are those in which the real beneficiary is not the one in whose name the property has been purchased.

    The attachment order, issued under the provisions of the Benami Transactions (Prohibition) Amendment Act of 2016, has been passed under the name and seal of Deputy Commissioner of I-T Alok K Singh under Additional Commissioner of the I-T (Benami Prohibition Unit) Dhruvpurari Singh.

    The department, the sources said, followed the “documents and money trail” in this case after going through multiple FIRs filed by the UP Police against Ansari, checking land records and numerous bank documents and it was found that Mishra had allegedly furnished a personal bond of Rs 90 lakh and had also pledged his property for a Rs 1.60 crore loan taken by a company in which Ansari’s wife and son are shareholders.

    The sources said the I-T department has launched a “comprehensive” action against Ansari and his associates and has codenamed the operation of identifying his alleged benami assets and finances as ‘Operation Panther’.

    The department, as per the sources, is in the process of attaching the rest 22 benami properties of Ansari which are estimated to be bearing a market value of over Rs 100 crore.

    Ansari, a five-time former MLA, is lodged in a jail at Banda in Uttar Pradesh.

    Apart from the I-T department, he is being investigated by the Enforcement Directorate too on money laundering charges.

    Ansari faces as many as 49 criminal cases that have been booked against him and aides on charges of land grabbing, murder and extortion.

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    ( With inputs from www.siasat.com )

  • MLA Abbas Ansari’s wife sent to police custody for ‘illegally’ meeting husband in jail

    MLA Abbas Ansari’s wife sent to police custody for ‘illegally’ meeting husband in jail

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    Lucknow: A court here on Thursday remanded Nikhat Bano, the wife of Uttar Pradesh MLA Abbas Ansari, in police custody for three days.

    Nikhat Bano was arrested on February 10 for illegally meeting her jailed husband in the deputy jailer’s room in Chitrakoot district.

    The jail superintendent and seven other staff members were suspended for laxity and departmental action was initiated against them.

    Lokesh Varun, the special judge of the court hearing cases lodged under the Prevention of Corruption Act, sent Nikhat Bano to police custody for three days. Her driver Niyaj Ahmad, another accused in the case, was remanded in police custody for five days.

    Hearing the matter through video-conferencing, the court said the remand period would begin from 10 am on Friday.

    Investigating officer Harsh Pandey had moved an application seeking police remand of both the accused.

    The court was told that the two were arrested from the jail compound in Chitrakoot.

    The court was also told that Nikhat Bano had kept her iPhone locked and it was necessary to unlock it so that relevant information could be collected.

    It was also stated that Ahmad had not handed over his mobile phone to police and it was necessary to trace the phone to ascertain the involvement of others.

    Abbas Ansari, the Suheldev Bharatiya Samaj Party (SBSP) MLA from Mau and son of jailed gangster-turned-politician Mukhtar Ansari, has been in prison for the last three months in connection with a money-laundering case.

    Apart from her mobile phone, many “objectionable” articles were found from Nikhat Bano’s possession, police had said.

    On the basis of a complaint from Sub-Inspector in-charge of the Ragauli Jail police station Shyamdev Singh, an FIR was lodged against five people — Nikhat Bano, Ahmad, Jail Superintendent Ashok Sagar, the deputy jailor and a constable.

    They were booked under various sections of the Indian Penal Code (IPC), including 222 (intentional omission to apprehend on the part of public servant bound to apprehend person under sentence or lawfully committed), 186 (voluntarily obstructing a public servant in the discharge of his public functions), 506 (criminal intimidation), 201, which deals with tampering with evidence, and 120B (criminal conspiracy).

    Police had also seized Saudi Arabian currency from Nikhat Bano.

    The Enforcement Directorate (ED) had arrested Abbas Ansari (30) in November last year after a long questioning session at the federal agency’s office in Prayagraj, Uttar Pradesh.

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    ( With inputs from www.siasat.com )