Varanasi: The police have taken action against Manoj Yadav, a key associate of codeine cough syrup smuggling racket kingpin Shubham Jaiswal. In connection with a case filed with Kotwali police, authorities have forfeited and frozen Manoj’s immovable assets and bank accounts worth Rs 13.53 crore. Manoj is currently on the run.DCP Kashi zone Gaurav Banswal revealed that a police team, led by ACP (Kotwali) Vijay Pratap Singh and Inspector Dayashankar Singh, has completed the process to seize 20 properties linked to Manoj Yadav, his wife Meenu, and their firm LMS Infrastructure Private Limited. The assets, valued at over Rs 12.66 crore, include residential and agricultural properties. The police team also froze debit facilities in 6 accounts belonging to Manoj’s two firms, his wife Meenu, and their son, across two banks, containing Rs 86.51 lakh. Manoj, based in Ausanganj, Jaitpura, was part of a racket led by Shubham Jaiswal, selling large quantities of codeine cough syrup in Varanasi and eastern UP districts. They created fake e-way bills to divert the syrup, which was then smuggled to Bangladesh via West Bengal for huge profits. The syndicate used these gains to buy assets.Before Manoj, major action was taken against Shubham’s jailed father, Bhola Prasad Jaiswal, whose movable and immovable properties worth over Rs 30 crore have been forfeited so far.
