Police attach properties worth Rs 10 crore of cattle smuggler

PRAYAGRAJ : The Prayagraj police attached another three pieces of land of cattle smuggler Mohd Muzzaffar in Kaushambi district on Monday. The estimated cost of the attached properties is worth Rs 10 crore. Block Pramukh Mohd Muzzaffar has 31 cases lodged against him at different police stations in the region and is presently lodged at Kaushambi jail.

Earlier, the Prayagraj police attached over eight properties of

Muzaffar and his kin worth around Rs 16 crore in different areas of Prayagraj and Kaushambi districts.

A team of Dhumanganj and Puramufti police put up a board mentioning attachment order issued by the district magistrate at the 0.6678 hectares of land. The team then put up similar boards at 14.5 biswa and 5 biswa of land at Mauja Bhikhampur in Chayal. Police officials narrated the attachment order while issuing warning against any trespassing on the attached lands.

SSP Prayagraj Shailesh Kumar

Pandey said the three properties were purchased by Muzzaffar in the name of his brother, Akram and his wife Gulista Bano, through illegally earned money. The attachment of these properties estimated to be worth Rs 10 crore was carried out under section 14 (1) of Gangsters Act, SSP added.

The Dhumanganj police registered a case against Mohd Muzzaffar and others under section 307 and Prevention of Cow Slaughter Act after 1800 kg of banned meat was recovered from a truck in November 2018.