LUCKNOW: After attaching two properties worth Rs 10 crore registered in the named jailed former minister Gayatri Prajapati’s domestic help Ram Sahai on Monday, the Enforcement Directorate has now set its eyes on ten other properties registered in the name of Sahai and situated in Mohanlalganj area of Lucknow.
The ED is of the view that these properties are benami assets of Prajapati himself. The properties were attached after ED first registered a case of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act, 2002, against the former minister on August 4, 2019. On Monday, ED attached properties in Indrajeet Kheda.
The ED sources said that the local administration has been informed and asked to provide details of lands in the Indrajeet Kheda area of Mohanlalganj in Lucknow.
The officials also said that a probe in the matter is in progress and further attachment of more benami properties in Mumbai, Lucknow and other places will be done and further prosecution complaints will be filed soon.
ED had earlier attached several properties and bank balances of former cabinet minister Gayatri Prajapati, his family members and their companies to the tune of Rs 36.9 crore.
Prajapati is in jail and convicted in a gangrape case and while cases related to accruing assets disproportionate to his known sources of income are under various stages of trial.
