The Gurugram Police along with officials from department of town and country planning (DTCP) and Municipal Corporation of Gurugram (MCG), demolished illegally constructed immovable properties on government land across the city on Wednesday, officials said.
Police said that these properties including a dairy farm, belonging to gangster Kaushal Chaudhary, houses and business establishment were constructed illegally on government land belonging to MCG or Haryana Shehri Vikas Pradhikaran (HSVP).
Investigators said that Kaushal who is currently in jail was running a large dairy farm in Naharpur Rupa in Sector 37. The farm spread across 700 square yards land of HSVP is worth more than 30 crores according to the real estate rates of Gurugram, officials said.
Police said the farm’s earning was being collected by his associates. Overall, 37 criminal cases including or murder and extortion are registered against him at various police stations in Haryana, Delhi and other states.
Officials said that they demolished a two-storeyed house of a drug smuggler Gazepal alias Bhajanlal. The house, built on a 100 square yard MCG land at Fazilpur Jharsa in Badshahpur, was used by his family.
Crime branch officials said that the house was built 12 years ago illegally on government land.
Sandeep Turan, public relations officer of the Gurugram police, said that Gazepal had three criminal cases of drug smuggling registered against him. “The property was found to be proceeds of crime,” he said.
The third action was taken against Mahender Yadav alias Mahi, from Balia in Uttar Pradesh, who was running a drug smuggling racket in the city, police said.
“Around 1500 square yards of HSVP land near Basai flyover in Sector 10 was used to illegally construct 40 houses, which were demolished,” he said.
Turan said that at least 15 kgs of drugs and ₹13 lakh cash were recovered during a raid on one of the houses by police in 2023.