Over 400 flats, two mega residential towers, commercial space, resorts, building space, hundreds of acres of land ownership in Varanasi, Rs 300 crore worth investments, secretly owned by the Samajwadi party MLA has been unearthed by the Uttar Pradesh income tax department. Azmi evaded questioning by IT officials but his associates declared ₹160-crore undisclosed income after IT raids, , Abu Azmi
VDA acted on the directions and an official communication issued by the Lucknow-headquartered investigation wing of the Income Tax (IT) department and sent a complaint to the Varanasi Police against the company.