The property was bought with the proceeds of illegal drug trade
Lucknow: Sonbhadra Police froze residential property worth Rs 23.86 lakh belonging to Deepak Kumar Bharti, an accused in a narcotics trafficking case, under provisions of the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act. Shaktinagar police carried out the action on Oct 24 on an order dated Oct 21. The property was bought with proceeds of the illegal drug trade and the order to freeze the property was approved by the competent and adjudicating authority under the Union finance ministry’s department of revenue, New Delhi, in case number NDPSA/FO/1305/DAL/2026. Bharti, son of Gulab Bharti and a resident of of in six cases across Sonbhadra district under Sections 68E and 68F of the NDPS Act, including property worth Rs 4.5 crore in a codeine-based cough syrup case registered at Robertsganj police another heroin case at Robertsganj police station and worth Rs 38.83 lakh in
A notice informing about the freezing order was formally affixed to the residential property under Section 68F of Chapter V-A of the NDPS Act.
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