{"id":314073,"date":"2019-07-18T12:07:55","date_gmt":"2019-07-18T12:07:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=314073"},"modified":"2019-09-07T09:50:19","modified_gmt":"2019-09-07T09:50:19","slug":"it-dept-seizes-rs-400-crore-plot-belonging-to-mayawatis-brother","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/it-dept-seizes-rs-400-crore-plot-belonging-to-mayawatis-brother\/","title":{"rendered":"IT dept seizes Rs 400 crore plot belonging to Mayawati&#8217;s brother"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-299905 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/22a.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1045\" height=\"645\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/07\/22a.jpg 1045w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/07\/22a-300x185.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/07\/22a-768x474.jpg 768w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/07\/22a-1024x632.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/07\/22a-356x220.jpg 356w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/07\/22a-696x430.jpg 696w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/07\/22a-680x420.jpg 680w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1045px) 100vw, 1045px\" \/>The Income Tax department on Thursday attached \u2018benami\u2019 plot worth Rs 400 crore in Noida belonging to the former Uttar Chief Minister and Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) supremo Mayawati\u2019s brother and his wife.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The provisional order for the attachment of the seven-acre plot, beneficially owned by Mayawati\u2019s brother Anand Kumar and his wife Vichiter Lata, was issued on July 16 by the Delhi-based Benami Prohibition Unit (BPU) of the department.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The order was issued under section 24(3) of the Prohibition of Benami Property Transactions Act, 1988.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">It mentioned that the benami property owned by Kumar and his wife measured 28,328.07 square meters or about 7 acres.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Mayawati had recently appointed Anand Kumar as the vice president of the BSP.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Income Tax department on Thursday attached \u2018benami\u2019 plot worth Rs 400 crore in Noida belonging to the former Uttar Chief Minister and Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) supremo Mayawati\u2019s brother and his wife. The provisional order for the attachment of the seven-acre plot, beneficially owned by Mayawati\u2019s brother Anand Kumar and his wife Vichiter Lata, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":104,"featured_media":299905,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2009,2014,2015],"tags":[11632,11631,1005,3510,11633],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314073"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/104"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=314073"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314073\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":314074,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314073\/revisions\/314074"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/299905"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=314073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=314073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=314073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}