Lucknow, March 1 -- The Lucknow Zone team of the Enforcement Directorate (ED) seized three closed sugar mills owned by sugar mill scam accused BSP's former MLC from Saharanpur, Mohd Iqbal, and his relatives.
These sugar mills are in Baitalpur, Bhatni, and Shahganj in Uttar Pradesh. Their value is around Rs 10 billion. The exercise was carried out on Thursday evening, and ED officials continued to investigate this matter until late in the night.
The seized sugar mills are M/s Melo Infratech Pvt Ltd, M/s Dynamic Sugar Pvt Ltd, and M/s Honeywell Sugar Pvt Ltd. The CBI had registered an FIR in this case. At that time, it was alleged that Iqbal and his associates had fraudulently acquired many sugar mills in UP through the disinvestment proces...