India News | Gangster's Property Worth Rs 1 Cr Attached in UP Village

Muzaffarnagar (UP), Apr 8 (PTI) Authorities on Friday attached properties of notorious gangster Sanjeev Maheshwari alias Sanjiv Jiva worth Rs 1 crore under the Gangsters Act.

A team of revenue officials with a police team led by Deputy Superintendent Sharestha Thakur reached Adampur village and attached 21 bigha agricultural land valued at Rs 1 crore, Sub Divisional Magistrate, Shamli, Brijesh Kumar told PTI.

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The gangster had allegedly got the land - registered in his relatives' names -- through illegal means, he said.

He was involved in about two dozen cases of murder, loot, and was booked for several under the Gangster Act.

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Jiva is serving a life term in a murder case in Lucknow jail.

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