Dadua may be dead, but members of his family continue to give the police and administration sleepless nights.

On Saturday, the Rae Bareli administration attached Dadua’s brother Rajkumar Patel (45) alias Bal Kumar’s illegal property worth Rs 1.56 crore. In the last three years, Bal Kumar had declared property worth Rs 7.46 lakh only.

It took magistrate Dhirendra Pratap Singh two hours to start the process of attachment as no one was ready to volunteer as a witness. Finally, two domestic helps employed by Bal Kumar were roped in to sign as witnesses.

Earlier, the district administration ensured that all knew about the imminent attachment by announcing the news through a loudspeaker fitted on a rickshaw. Bal Kumar’s son Ram Singh, who usually lives in Rae Bareli, was not present when the properties were being attached.

Singh said Bal Kumar and three accomplices—Pahalwan, Ashok and Hemant—who are right now in Rae Bareli district jail under the Gangster Act, grabbed many plots and terrorised the police with his brother’s help. “Two palatial houses in Indira Nagar and Prakash Nagar localities of Rae Bareli; three brick kilns in Tiloi, Sultanpur Kheraand Golwa, seven four wheelers, three licensed firearms procured by faking documents and one plot have been seized on the direction of the District Magistrate under Section 14 (1) of the Gangster Act,” Singh said.

Dal Bahadur Singh, a resident of India Nagar in Rae Bareli had registered a complaint with the District Manager last month that his house was grabbed by Bal Kumar.

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