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The Enforcement Directorate, Hyderabad zonal office, has filed a prosecution ailment earlier the Special Court nether the Prevention of Money Laundering Act successful Rangareddy territory against 10 persons, including Pasham Srinivas, Haseena Begum, Mohammed Thahera Begum, Mohammed Saleema Begum, Mohammed Abdul Saleem, Ahela Begum, Syed Nilofar, Firdous Anjum, Mohammed Arif and Heena Kousar. The tribunal took cognisance of the lawsuit connected January 21.
The bureau initiated its probe based connected an FIR registered by the Telangana Police successful a lawsuit relating to the forceful concern and merchantability of onshore by slain gangster Khaja Nayeemuddin alias Nayeem and his associates. The ED had besides received a notation from the Income Tax Department, which had taken enactment nether the Prohibition of Benami Property Transactions Act pursuing inputs from the Special Investigation Team constituted by the State authorities to probe the amerciable acquisition of immovable properties by Nayeemuddin and his network.
According to the ED, the probe revealed that Nayeemuddin, on with his associates and household members, had systematically identified invaluable properties and coerced their owners to transportation them by issuing threats to their lives and to the information of their families. In respective instances, the victims were allegedly abducted oregon their household members were held nether duress and taken to Sub Registrar offices, wherever the properties were forcibly registered successful the names of Nayeemuddin’s associates oregon relatives.
The bureau said the illegally acquired properties were projected arsenic genuine done forced merchantability deeds, though the archetypal owners did not person immoderate monetary consideration. The grade of intimidation was specified that the victims were incapable to attack the constabulary oregon immoderate different authority. Pasham Srinivas, described arsenic a adjacent subordinate of Nayeemuddin, allegedly played a cardinal relation successful coordinating the extortion of properties and ensuring their registration successful the names of the gangster’s household members and associates.
The ED further stated that arsenic galore arsenic 91 properties were forcefully registered successful this mode and constituted proceeds of transgression nether the PMLA. While these assets were not attached by the bureau arsenic they had already been provisionally attached by the Income Tax Department nether the Benami law, the ED has sought their confiscation to the Central authorities successful the prosecution ailment present filed earlier the court.
