I-T Department to Confiscate Rs 12-Crore Asset of Deceased Gangster-Politician Mukhtar Ansari

The Income Tax Department is set to confiscate a Rs 12-crore asset belonging to deceased gangster-politician Mukhtar Ansari. The property in Uttar Pradesh was confirmed as a benami asset by the adjudicating authority. The immovable property will now be taken over by the tax department, following legal proceedings.

The Income Tax Department is on the verge of seizing a Rs 12-crore asset of the late gangster-politician Mukhtar Ansari. This development follows the adjudicating authority under the anti-benami assets law confirming the property's attachment as of 2023, sources revealed on Wednesday.

The said property, located in 'Mauja Kapurpur NZA under Sadar Tehsil' in Uttar Pradesh's Ghazipur district, has been declared a benami asset. Initially, the I-T Department’s investigation wing in Lucknow issued a provisional attachment order under the Benami Transactions (Prohibition) Amendment Act, 2016 in April 2013. That order led to the property's impoundment in May.

Identified as Ansari’s alleged associate and neighbor, Ganesh Dutt Mishra, the property's benamidar, was named in the order, confirming Ansari as the beneficial owner. The tax department will now proceed to confiscate the asset. Ansari, who passed away from cardiac arrest earlier this year, had over 60 criminal cases against him and was a five-time MLA from Mau Sadar.