Lucknow: Former Uttar Pradesh minister Gayatri Prasad Prajapati, who is imprisoned on charges of misdemeanour, has been steadily increasing. In a money laundering case, Special Judge of Enforcement Directorate (ED) Dinesh Kumar Sharma (III) has ordered Prajapati to be sent to judicial custody.

Prajapati is accused that while holding the post of Minister of Mines, he has acquired uncountable wealth by making black money worth rupees crores by forming several firms. The ED has sought police remand for 10 days to interrogate Gayatri Prajapati in the matter of acquiring vast wealth. It will be heard on 10 February. On 26 October 2020, the Enforcement Directorate filed a case against Gayatri Prajapati for acquiring disproportionate assets. During the investigation, the ED found that Prajapati earned assets worth crores of rupees while mining minister and invested money in them by forming several firms.

On January 22, the ED summoned Gayatri from jail through a production warrant. Gayatri was produced before the special court from jail on 8 February 2021, where the court issued an order to send Gayatri to judicial custody. Now ED Gayatri wants a 10-day police remand so that he can be questioned and questioned in this case.

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