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The Enforcement Directorate (ED) will soon register a case against three-time MLA from Khuthan and former BSP MP from Machhlishahr Umakant Yadav under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act. Azamgarh police has handed over the information of cases and properties registered against Umakant to the ED.
Let us tell you that the officials of the ED’s zonal office in Lucknow had recently written a letter to the SP of Azamgarh seeking information. Along with this, they had also asked for details of the cases registered against his son Ravikant.
If sources are to be believed, ED officials have started studying the information received from Azamgarh police. In this, the possibilities of registering a case under money laundering are being explored. Let us tell you that the first case against Umakant was registered in the year 1977.
After this, 36 criminal cases were registered in Azamgarh, Lucknow and Jaunpur. These include many serious cases like fraud, robbery, murder and damage to public property. Not only this, two years ago, seven people including Umakant have been sentenced to life imprisonment in the GRP constable murder case. Apart from BSP, Umakant has also been in SP.
