Uttarakhand police is all set to expose property dealers, who play role of dummy investors for criminals, as part of its plan to destroy the nexus between some property dealers and hardcore criminals from some districts of neighbouring State Uttar Pradesh.
Shouldered with the responsibility to bust the nexus, its special teams have gathered vital clues about the nasty nexus between property dealers and hardcore criminals, who control their business sitting away in some districts of neighbouring State Uttar Pradesh. Fastening pace of the probe, special teams have collected information about several property dealers who might be playing role of dummy investors for the hardened criminals. Top officials are closely monitoring the ongoing probe that caught up pace up after attack on son of owner of a hotel in the city.
Acting promptly, the police team arrested three shooters, who opened fire at car of the hotel owner’s son. Of the arrested shooters, two happened to be resident of Muzaffarnagar that shares boundary with the State. One of them belonged to Meerut. Police registered a case against the trio.
During interrogation, the fact came to the fore that the main reason behind the incident was transaction of money reportedly invested in property dealings by some notorious goons of the UP.
As fact came to the fore, Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) Kewal Khurana constituted three special teams to carry out a thorough probe into the matter. “A group of teams has been constituted. It is working in close coordination. So far, the teams have done well.” He also indicated that the police teams would expose a vicious network of property dealers and criminals” said Khurana.
According to highly placed sources, carrying out probe on several lines, the teams have gathered information about several property dealers working in the State. Simultaneously, sleuths of the team are keeping a strict vigil on movement of these property dealers who might be enjoying close links with the criminals and helping them in expansion of their network in property deals.
Special teams have also been constituted to keep an eye on big land and property deals take place in the bordering district, including Haldwani and Udham Singh Nagar. Sources said that the senior officials analyse the everyday development of the probe and recently held a meeting to decide further course of action in the matter on the basis of inputs.
“Special operation group (SOG) and Special Investigation Section (SIS) sleuths in the districts sharing boundary with UP have special instruction to collect record of suspected property deals those might involve criminals as behind-the-curtain players,” a source said.
Deputy Inspector General of Police Amit Sinha said, “Police are working to destroy the nexus between property dealers and criminals.” He, however, didn’t name any particular district of UP. He also claimed that the nexus would be destroyed soon.