The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has attached 12 properties worth ₹5.35 crore belonging to former councillor Mahadesh, who has been convicted for murder.
Disclosing this to presspersons here on Tuesday, Mysuru City Police Commissioner A. Subramanyeshwar Rao said the confiscation of the former councillor’s properties came after the city police wrote to the ED in the regard.
Though a probe is underway into the benami properties held by Mr. Mahadesh and his brother C. Manju, who had been convicted in the sensational Hunsur double murder case, Mr. Rao said the brothers had amassed properties in their and their family members’ names in Mysuru through criminal acts like murder, conspiracy, and intimidation.
After the conviction by a trial court in Mysuru, Mahadesh, a JD(S) councillor, was stripped of his membership in the Mysuru City Corporation (MCC) Council. He and his brother, who had been sentenced to life imprisonment, are presently lodged in Ballary Central Jail.
The duo is also the main accused in the murder of Devendra in Mysuru in May 2016. The city police, which has taken up the murder of Devendra under the Karnataka Control of Organised Crime Act (KCOCA), has submitted a chargesheet against 28 accused in the trial court.
Mr. Rao said it was the first time that the Mysuru City Police had written to the ED to attach the properties of a person with criminal antecedents.
