Lucknow, Aug 18: The Enforcement Directorate (ED) searched four places, including at the residence of Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) MP Afzal Ansari and mafia-turned-politician Mukhtar Ansari, in Uttar Pradesh on Thursday.
Official sources said that searches were also carried out at Afzal’s residence in Delhi besides in Lucknow, Ghazipur and Mau districts in Uttar Pradesh.
In Lucknow, the searches took place in an apartment in Dalibagh area.
Official sources said a team of ED along with central security forces reached the ancestral house of the Ansaris at Yusufpur Phatak in Mohammadabad town in Ghazipur.
Searches also took place at the premises of property dealer Ganesh Dutt Mishra, jeweller Vikram Agrahari and travel agency owner Shamsuddin Khan in the city. All of them were considered close to the Ansari family.
Illegal properties of Mukhtar Ansari and his associates to the tune of Rs 15 crore have been seized in different parts of the state in the last few months.
With UNI Inputs….
