Major crackdown on Mayawati's brother by IT dept

In a major crackdown, the Income Tax Department has attached a benami commercial plot in Noida worth Rs 400 crore belonging to BSP chief Mayawati's brother Anand Kumar and his wife where a five-star hotel was supposed to come up.

The action comes ahead of the by-elections in 12 Assembly seats in Uttar Pradesh.

A senior IT official told IANS that the wealth of Anand Kumar and his wife Vichiter Lata rose steeply between 2007 to 2012, the years Mayawati was the Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister.