Noida, Aug 8 (PTI) Uttar Pradesh's Gautam Buddh Nagar Police on Tuesday attached an ill-gotten property worth Rs 3.50 crore in Delhi belonging to jailed gangster Sundar Bhati in a financial crackdown against organized crime, officials said.

The three-storey residential building is located in East Delhi's Shashi Garden area under Pandav Nagar police station limits, Additional Deputy Commissioner of Police (Greater Noida) Ashok Kumar said.

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The property has been attached under provisions of Section 14 (1) of the Uttar Pradesh Gangsters and Anti-Social Activities (Prevention) Act on the instructions of Gautam Buddh Nagar Police Commissioner Laxmi Singh and DCP (Greater Noida) Saad Miya Khan, he said.

"Sundar Bhati is a notorious gangster of Gautam Buddh Nagar with at least 47 criminal cases against him. Police had been tracing his ill-gotten wealth and properties.

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"This property (building in Delhi) has been attached today in pursuance of a case lodged under the Gangsters Act at the Kasna police station in 2019," the additional DCP said.

Section 14 (1) of the Uttar Pradesh Gangsters and Anti-Social Activities (Prevention) Act allows for attachment of illegal properties, to effectively curb gangsters, mafias and criminals and their associates.

A total of 54 people, including a police constable, were booked in the stringent case in 2019 when then district magistrate Brajesh Narain Singh and then senior superintendent of police Vaibhav Krishna had launched a crackdown on the organized crime in the western Uttar Pradesh district, adjoining Delhi.

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