Uttar Pradesh government on Sunday removed illegal portions of a residential structure belonging to deceased Kamlesh Singh "Pradhan", who was a gang member of gangster-turned-politician Mukhtar Ansari, in the Ghazipur district.
Delivering another blow to the multi-state terrorist-gangster-drug smuggler network, National Investigation Agency (NIA) has attached five properties owned by members of the organised crime syndicates in Delhi and Haryana.
Prayagraj Police conducted a raid on gangster-turned-politician and former Samajwadi Party leader Atiq Ahmed's residence in the Mahanagar area of Lucknow, seizing two luxury cars from the Universal Apartments, police sources said on Wednesday.
The development came days after jailed Gangster Mukhtar Ansari's son MLA Abbas Ansari's wife Nikhat Bano was arrested with two cellphones when she visited the prison for allegedly providing "undue help" to her husband.
Jailed gangster-turned-politician and former MP Atiq Ahmed's wife, BSP leader Shaista Parveen, has filed a plea before Allahabad District Court claiming that her two sons were taken away by the police.
Gangster Mukhtar Ansari's son Abbas Ansari, who is in jail in connection with the Prevention of money laundering case, was summoned by the Anti-corruption Court, Lucknow, on Tuesday for illegally meeting his wife at the Chitrakoot jail.
The henchman of Bishnoi's gang Hrithik in the Facebook post also claimed that gangster Kaushal, gangster Bawana and gangster Bambiha's associates would be killed similarly, police said.
In a major crackdown on gangsters, working in tandem with terrorist groups and drug smugglers based in foreign countries including Pakistan and Canada, the National Investigation Agency (NIA) conducted raids at 76 locations across 8 states on Tuesday, an official statement said.
On the basis of call records, the NIA teams conducted searches in rural and urban areas of Jodhpur as Bishnoi's network has been active in these areas, sources said.
According to sources, Kulwinder has been a longtime associate of Bishnoi. Cases of providing shelter to the people of Bishnoi gang were also against him.
In a major crackdown against gangster syndicate, the National Investigation Agency (NIA) launched searches at over 70 locations across several states on Tuesday.