India, May 2 -- The income tax department has provisionally attached benami properties worth Rs.45.1 crore in the form of fixed deposit, as well as shares held in various steel and mining companies of the managing director of a steel company in Odisha under the Benami Transactions (Prohibition) Amendment Act.

Following a public notice under section 24(b)(i) of the Act, the Benami prohibition unit of the income tax department's Bhubaneswar office provisionally attached properties worth Rs.45.10 crore kept in the form of fixed deposit and shares held in various companies namely Yazdani Projects & Estates Pvt Ltd, Yazdani Steel and Power Limited and Yazdani International Pvt Ltd with the Meraj Yusha as beneficial owner. Yusha is currently t...