The scrap dealer, who has been booked under the Gangsters Act, allegedly strong-armed his way into a monopoly in the business in Noida and west UP, amassing properties worth crores in the process, including four houses in Delhi worth Rs 400 crore, according to police.
So far, police have raided two factories owned by him and sealed properties worth Rs 200 crore across NCR.
DCP (Greater Noida) Saad Miya Khan told TOI on Saturday police attached three plots with a market value of Rs 80 crore – an 18,640 sqm land parcel in Bulandshahr and two more spread over 3,720 sqm in Noida – owned by Kana. A dozen vehicles from two factories – seven goods carriers and a car from Prime Pressing Tools and four goods carriers from New Krishna Steel – were seized as well.
Five bank accounts, with nearly Rs 4 crore in them, have also allegedly been traced to Kana and his associates.
Prime Pressing Tools, located in Bisrakh, and New Krishna Steel, in Ghaziabad’s Loha Mandi, are both scrap and rebar factories.
“This is the first time properties of Ravi Kana have been attached after police commissioner Laxmi Singh issued an order under Section 14 (1) of the Gangsters Act to attach movable and immovable property belonging to him and one of his gang members, Raj Kumar, on Friday,” Khan said.
Section 14(1) of the Act allows the attachment of “ill-gotten assets” of criminals to stop financial support to organised crime and gangs.
Cops have also attached a 4,000 sqm plot worth Rs 33 crore in Ecotech 12 and a 1,735 sqm flat in Sector Chi-5 worth Rs 95 lakh owned by Kumar. A bank account linked to Ascon Exports Pvt Ltd, a factory owned by Kumar in the Sikandarabad area of Bulandshahr, was also seized.
Police officers said more properties, including some in Delhi, belonging to Kana and his associates like Kajal Jha have been identified and would be attached. Police had found an office belonging to Kana located in New Friends Colony which was looked after by Jha. She, according to police sources, is one of Kana’s closest associates and director is several shell companies of the gang.
Kana, who had close ties with gangster Anil Dujana and had allegedly used his network to coerce industrialists to give him tenders for rebar scrap deals, was booked under the Gangsters Act on Jan 2. Fifteen of his associates have also been booked under the Act. Eight of them have been arrested, but no Kana and Jha.
A non-bailable warrant was issued against Kana by the district court on Jan 8. Kana’s anticipatory bail plea in the case was rejected on Jan 11.
On Dec 30 last year, Kana and three others were booked after a 25-year-old woman accused them of raping her at the surface parking lot of Gardens Galleria Mall in June. He is also facing charges in 10 other cases, including rape, extortion, wrongful confinement, cheating, dacoity and harbouring an offender who escaped from police custody.
