Dubey aide’s ‘disproportionate assets’ under scanner

LUCKNOW: Disproportionate assets of slain gangster Vikas Dubey’s business associate Jaikant Bajpai are under the scanner. The state government has recommended a probe into the huge amount of wealth amassed by him to the income tax department and enforcement directorate, said home department officials.

Money procured through illegal activities by Dubey and his gang had been invested into real estate and other businesses by Bajpai. It was alleged that he amassed huge wealth in a very short span of time, said officials.

Bajpai was also into illegal money lending and had given loans worth crores to different businessmen of Kanpur, added the officials. Currently, Bajpai is in jail after he was arrested by Kanpur police on July 21.

The state government on Monday gave letters to the chief income tax commissioner and joint director of enforcement directorate to investigate into Bajpai’s assets, stated a press release from the home department. The home department also asked income tax and enforcement directorate officials to

apprise it about the findings of the probe. ED officials had already initiated the process to collect details about Dubey and Bajpai before the home department wrote a letter in this regard.

Enforcement directorate officials had visited Kanpur and met inspector general (IG), Kanpur range, Mohit Agarwal in the matter on July 9. They had sought information about all cases related to Dubey and his gang men as well as details of assets procured by them.

Besides, a three-member Special Investigation Team (SIT) chaired by additional chief secretary (excise), Sanjay Bhoosreddy, set up to probe into different aspects of Kanpur ambush, has been collecting details about the assets of Dubey and his 56 family members, relatives and henchmen including Bajpai. The SIT head had written letters to development authorities of Kanpur, Lucknow, Ghaziabad and Gautam Buddh Nagar, seeking details of any land allotments in the names of Vikas Dubey and 56 others on the list.

Similar letters were also sent to local administrations of Kanpur, Kanpur Dehat and Lucknow, seeking details of allotments of any contracts or tenders to Dubey and others.